Nicholas Bodley <nbodley at speakeasy dot net> wrote:

> (Then there are the "myzl" sayers, who pronounce "misled" as if it
> were the past form of a verb "to misle" (myzl), and are surprised to
> never see the past form of "mislead" in print.

I still sometimes read it as [mis@...], even though I've known the word
seemingly forever. Usually this happens if the word comes up in a
context where I wasn't expecting it.

My favorite related story: Until I was about 20 I had never actually
heard the word "albeit," though I had seen it in print many times and
understood its meaning from context. I thought it was pronounced
[OlbaIt], as if it were a German word. The first person I heard say the
word was Howard Cosell, during a Monday Night Football telecast, which
makes sense the more you think about it.

> ("Past form" betrays long-forgotten names of basic grammatical terms;
> sorry!))

Are you looking for "preterit" or "past participle"?

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/