XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: larry@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2024-07-29 09:39, Rich Ulrich wrote:   
   > On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:40:26 +0100, Phil    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 29/07/2024 12:25, Peter Moylan wrote:   
   >>> On 29/07/24 19:25, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>>> On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 17:08:29 +1000, Peter Moylan    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> There used to be a low-calorie Australian beer called Dietale. My   
   >>>>> uncles used to pronounce it as if it were an Italian word.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> So did I when I first saw it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I've discovered that "biopic" is pronounced "BI-o-pic", but I still   
   >>>> tend to pronounce it as "bi-Opic".   
   >>>   
   >>> So do I. So, I imagine, do many people, because the word looks as if   
   >>> it's supposed tp rhyme with myopic.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Yes, I'm one of those many. I also firmly believe it's possible to misle   
   >> people, having encountered 'misled' in print at a tender age. A poster   
   >> here a while back also brought us 'skipants'.   
   >>   
   >> I have the same confusion, in my head, with Dutch 'tegelijk', which I'm   
   >> prone to think rhymes with 'degelijk'.   
   >   
   > Some years ago, aue featured various offerings of misling spellings,   
   > and we also reported cases of mishy-phenation.  The cow-orker was   
   > a favorite example of the latter.  I offered an example I ran into in   
   > the wild, mans-laughter.   
      
   The first one I ran into in the wild was the-rapist.   
      
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