Hard Words Are Hard - 5 May 2014
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🗓️ 4 May 2014
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:28.0 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:34.3 | And I'm Martha Barnett. On an earlier show we were talking about words that we mispronounced for years. |
| 0:39.9 | And Grant, you confessed to mispronouncing hyperbole. |
| 0:43.0 | Hmm, hyperbole. |
| 0:44.0 | Mm-hmm, and I admitted that for a long time I thought the woman's name was Penelope. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, instead of Penelope. |
| 0:50.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, we heard from lots and lots of listeners about this. |
| 0:53.6 | Mike from San Francisco wrote about the word misled. |
| 0:57.9 | He writes, my friend had both seen the word in print |
| 1:00.7 | and heard the word pronounced, but never at the same time so when reading to herself she |
| 1:04.9 | pronounced it myzled myzled miseled miseled miseled miseled and his friend |
| 1:11.2 | found out only when she was in a classroom where they were all reading from the same book and somebody was reading it aloud and then she, you know, had this moment. |
| 1:20.0 | Yes. And I love this one, Anne Peter wrote from Wisconsin to say that someone she knows kept talking about a dewagger. |
| 1:27.6 | Oh, instead of a doubt with you. |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, she was reading a lot of historical fiction and she picked up this term do wagger duchess. |
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