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Words that on first seeing their actual spelling blew your mind.

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  • #52
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    Carotid. I always thought it would be 'corroted' or something like that.


  • #53
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    This op and thread to me represent all that is wrong with your country and society

    I know, I SUCK!
    PseudoFamous wrote: »
    You trying to say something?

    :pac:


  • #54
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Demesne. Or is it Demense.


  • #55
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    efb wrote: »
    Lieutenant

    There seems to be some sort of echo in here :p


  • #56
    Susie_Q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    Sachet.


  • #57
    Khaleesi Hollow Showboat
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Khaleesi Hollow Showboat


    tallaght and choir, i think


  • #58
    flahavaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,235 ✭✭✭✭flahavaj


    Phlegm definitely.

    Also Guerilla as in Guerilla Warfare. Visions of apes with guns abound.:o


  • #59
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Queue


    I mean, why all the extra letters?!


  • #60
    spokes
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭spokes


    ghoti

    Pronounced :
    fish

    The gh as the gh in rough
    The o as an o in women and
    The ti as in the ti in nation.


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  • #61
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Fota Wildlife Park.


    and the big one: Bhfuil!!!!


  • #62
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    epitome


  • #63
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    Penelope

    I imagined Lady Penelope from 'Thunderbirds' having her name spelt very differently, I can tell you!


  • #64
    Darkginger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Darkginger


    Cattarh - as a kid I thought I suffered from guitar.


  • #65
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Bass
    As in bass pronounced "base".

    But then there's bass....as in seabass....


  • #66
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Pterodactyl.


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  • #67
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    PIKACHU!!!


  • #68
    Godsentme
    Registered Users Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Godsentme


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    wow- so this is what the geeks talk about on Board on saturday when everyone else is out getting laid


    Well I'm workin'... Your postin - so why ain't you out gettin laid?


  • #69
    m.j.w
    Registered Users Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭m.j.w


    has to be Sergeant


  • #70
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, A town in north Wales.


  • #71
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    PIKACHU!!!

    Bless you


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  • #72
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    nose and noes.


  • #73
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,798 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Lieutenant, always thought it was pronouced the American way Lootenant, and thought that Leftenant was a different word altogether.


  • #74
    robman60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭robman60


    Phoebe - When I first saw it I thought it was "Fobe"

    Appalled - I'm still shocked that there's no "u" in that.

    Pseudonym - The silent P is mega mindfuck


  • #75
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Canapes.


  • #76
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Miss Olenska wrote: »
    I'm usually getting nailed by the BF around this time on a Saturday but he's away, so my inner-nerd has made a rare appearance. :D

    Well that was a waste of 3 months of stalking. :(


  • #77
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Canapes.
    yeah, who would have guessed it was spelled 'hors d'ouvres'


  • #78
    Cill Dara Abu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    Sphincter


  • #79
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Oh yeah, Yosemite. That one really played tricks with me.


  • #80
    BigCon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭BigCon


    Yosemite


  • #81
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    amacachi wrote: »
    Well that was a waste of 3 months of stalking. :(

    It's OK, I got the portrait you did of me with your own pubes, it's lovely. Hanging over the mantle as I type!

    :pac:
    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Oh yeah, Yosemite. That one really played tricks with me.

    Yose-might was how I first thought it was pronounced. :o


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  • #82
    Dante
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,583 ✭✭✭Dante


    Lingerie.

    It still blows my mind to this day!!


  • #83
    Be||e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Be||e


    Subtle.

    Oh, and Bordeaux. Made a fool of myself over that one when I was young. :(


  • #84
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Miss Olenska wrote: »
    It's OK, I got the portrait you did of me with your own pubes, it's lovely. Hanging over the mantle as I type!

    I don't deserve you anyway, 3 months of stalking yet I didn't know you had a fella. Slut. :pac:


  • #85
    R P McMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭R P McMurphy


    Remuneration


  • #86
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    amacachi wrote: »
    I don't deserve you anyway, 3 months of stalking yet I didn't know you had a fella. Slut. :pac:

    You can't stalk for shít! :pac:


  • #87
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Miss Olenska wrote: »
    You can't stalk for shít! :pac:

    I'll step it up a notch, then you'll want me. Hell you already do, you just don't realise it yet!


  • #88
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    Yvonne.


  • #89
    Miss Olenska
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Miss Olenska


    amacachi wrote: »
    I'll step it up a notch, then you'll want me. Hell you already do, you just don't realise it yet!

    Come at me bro, come at me!!!

    :pac:


  • #90
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Miss Olenska wrote: »
    Come at me bro, come at me!!!

    :pac:

    I don't like women being so forward. Time for us both to move on I think.


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  • #91
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Niamh.


  • #92
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Idiosyncrasies.


  • #93
    EverEvolving
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭EverEvolving


    Bona fide - used to think it was bona feeday.


  • #94
    sgthighway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭sgthighway


    Londonderry - first six letters are silent ;)


  • #95
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Bass
    As in bass pronounced "base".

    But then there's bass....as in seabass....
    Sorta like Live. Like "How did he live his life" and like "X Band is playing live"


  • #96
    smodgley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭smodgley


    hetropaternalsuperfecundation

    and

    sadomasochisticanalnecrohomopedopyrobestiality


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  • #97
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,650 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Dr Hfuhruhurr.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #98
    demakinz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭demakinz


    centre


  • #99
    The Snipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭The Snipe


    Diaper! Which I just learned there! :O


  • #100
    Aurum
    Registered Users Posts: 176 ✭✭Aurum


    Cholmondeley, the correct spelling of the name that's pronounced Chumley.


  • #101
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    polygamy, also pneumonia (damned silent Ps)

    now that I think about it, the word damn too :)

    sieve, always hear people pronounce it as siv


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