From: chenrich@monmouth.com   
      
   In article ,   
   William Vetter  wrote:   
      
   > People who have not had formal education, but have learned primarily from   
   > books, even though they may have learned more than many people who have   
   > completed degrees, can teach themselves to pronounce unfamiliar words as they   
   > are written.   
   >   
   > One afternoon, I was talking to a laboratory stockman at his counter.  He was   
   > excited because he had bought a new telescope, and wanted to use the setting   
   > circles to find the Ring Nebula and so forth, and he was telling me about   
   > sidereal time.  He pronounced it "SIDE REAL."   
   >   
   It can happen to people who have had a good formal education, too[1].   
   My father, when he was at college, used the word "misled" in a formal   
   debate. But he pronounced it "MYE-zled."   
      
   Ob-SF: Charlie Johns, the protagonist of Theodore Sturgeon's  _Venus   
   Plus X_, was also grown up when he found out that the word was not   
   "mizzled."   
      
   --   
   Chris Henrich    
   Yes, one can rant about the program designs, but generally things keep getting   
   more and more confused as time goes on. --Sea Wasp   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)