What are your adult "blind spots"

Banzai_Joe said:
No idea what you're talking about; hyper bowl, hyperbole, who cares. Are they not pronounced the same way.
I have no idea what they mean either.....and i'm 42.
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Yup, pronounced "hy-per-bo-lee", not "hyperbowl". Means obvious or intentional exaggeration, ie, saying there's a lot of something by saying "there's millions of them".

manic111 said:
"Rhetoric" for me. I always say it as rhe-TO-ric (as you'd say rhetorical), rather than RHE-to-ric. I know it's wrong and it still hops out my mouth.
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That's another odd one that's caught me out a few times.

You can have a 'rhetorical question' (ret-oracle), or you can describe someone's 'rhetoric' (ret-eric).

Edrof said:
A friend thought the phrase was "the best thing since life has spread" rather than 'sliced bread'. For thirty years. He's nice so can be forgiven.
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:D

Just burst out laughing at this one! Any more?
 
I wrote etcetera and ectcetera for the longest time and would thus write ect instead of etc.

Rusty_Noob said:
My girlfriend is a champ when it comes to these!

She used to go "trickle treating" at Halloween
She carries a "ham bag"
She stores her clothes in a "chester drawers"

The crazy thing is she is very intelligent, loads of A's and A*'s at GCSE level, really good A levels and has just sat the last bunch of her ACCA accountancy exams so should be a chartered accountant in February! (She's passed all her accountancy exams first time with decent grades as well)
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I have a friend like that. She's studying at St Andrews right now and got A's at A-Level but can be dim as anything sometimes.
 
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It wasn't until 5 years ago that I said to my girlfriend:

"I know why the Thundercats are called Thundercats, they are all types of cat".

She thought I had worked out why the Thunder part was in the name.

I still haven't lived it down.

:o
 
My gf pronounces "I'll" as "are" ("Are see you later!"). I've never understood why and I mercilessly rib her for it. She comes out with some great stuff as well. She once asked me how old you had to be to take drugs. I explained they were illegal, but it took a minute for her to catch on.

It's not grammatical, but I can't whistle, and it took me until my late teens before I could snap my fingers.

I'm sure my gf will remember many more about me. She has a memory like an elephant when it comes to my mistakes.
 
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A work colleague (who was a bit of a posh boy) used to pronouce 'albeit' as 'olbay' :confused: No matter how many times it was pointed out to him that he was being a *** he still couldn't get out of the habit of it...
 
Rusty_Noob said:
My girlfriend is a champ when it comes to these!

She used to go "trickle treating" at Halloween
She carries a "ham bag"
She stores her clothes in a "chester drawers"

The crazy thing is she is very intelligent, loads of A's and A*'s at GCSE level, really good A levels and has just sat the last bunch of her ACCA accountancy exams so should be a chartered accountant in February! (She's passed all her accountancy exams first time with decent grades as well)
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lol who is chester and why are you keeping yer knickers in his drawers ?
 
ha you should try living in a foreign country then i hear stuff all the time

latest one is "I ****ed myself of laughing"
 
I didn't spot that 'why did the chicken cross the road... to get to the other side' actually has a double meaning until I was 25+
 
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