# Any words you insist on reading wrong (in your head at least)?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 19, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805 "2022-02-19T22:32:28Z")
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### Author: ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-words-you-insist-on-reading-wrong-in-your-head-at-least/959805/17 "2022-02-20T03:07:41Z")

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Thinking about this today. In English translations of manga, they often use “fufufu…” to represent a type of laughter. I prefer to always read it as the person saying “Eff you, eff you, eff you…”

There is a local restaurant named Master’s Wok that I think of as Master Swok and a medical franchise named Doctor’s Care that to me is Doctor Scare.

(And from a similar recent thread)

> [@Things you misinterpret on purpose](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-misinterpret-on-purpose/946588/6):
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> To me “af” has always abbreviated “auto-focus”, so I prefer to continue that. So I read comments–for example–about things that are racist auto-focus.

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