Friday OT: Hearing is Believing

[cyclones500]

Happy Friday. I’m guest-host again this week, at the request of @Angie.

We’re all familiar with misheard song lyrics. But what about other types of mishearing, such as names of actors, musicians, anyone famous/notable? (This could extend to titles of movies, TV shows, books, as it applies). Similar, also accepted: Word you had seen in print, but mispronounced because you hadn’t heard it spoken yet.

Mishearing happened a lot when I was younger. Two such examples:
Gore Vidal … I heard as “Gorbie Doll.”
Pia Zadora … I heard as “P. Izzadora”

 

[Cyclonepride]

Not really a mishearing so much as a glitch in my brain.

I watch golf all the time, and for some damn reason, every time I see Tommy Fleetwood, my brain thinks Mick Fleetwood and every time I see JJ Spaun, my brain thinks Warren Spahn.

 

[JP4CY]

I......like many of you grew up with the Berenstein Bears. It will always be stein and not stain to ME!

 

[cyclones500]

Not really a mishearing so much as a glitch in my brain.

I watch golf all the time, and for some damn reason, every time I see Tommy Fleetwood, my brain thinks Mick Fleetwood and every time I see JJ Spaun, my brain thinks Warren Spahn.

That's a good augment to the topic. I'm sure I have some examples of that, too.

Edit: That almost could be a separate FOT, now that I think of it. But it's cool to use it for this one if anyone has some.

 

[Fishhead]

A friend of mine was pronouncing lasso, la-soo. Apparently it is more common in Britain but he is not British. Maybe not matching the thread subject, but I thought it was funny. I thought he was nuts

 

[cyclones500]

First couple of times I heard the name Macaulay Culkin … It sounded like Macaulick Hulkin (best stab at spelling-descriptor).

I saw the name in print soon after, but still took a couple of months before my brain “accepted” the correct version. Heh!

 

[cyclones500]

Another way-back: First few times I heard the band name Bay City Rollers on radio, I assumed it was “Base City Rollers.” (I was young and unaware Bay City is a city).

 

[pourcyne]

NPR by the dozens...probably the worst for me since there are no subtitles to see what the name really is.

Still think Lakshmi Singh is "Latch-Me Sing"

Neda Ulaby = Need A Ulu-Baby (whatever that would be)

Never did get Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, just always heard "in DaKAHRRR"

Oh, and sometimes it's Ira Plato and sometimes it's Ira Flate-oh.

Last, but not least, the amazing "Hidden Brain" host, Whatever-His-Name-Is
(it's Shankar Vedantam)

 

[cyclones500]

Side note: I change thread title ... just so everyone knows there's one F-OT and not a separate one.

I don't like either of my thread title ideas. Realized I hadn't formulated that effectively.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Two from my younger days:

Whenever I first read the name Aloysius, I pronounced it A-loy-shush.

And Penelope was Pen-eh-lope

It took a bit of retraining to pronounce them correctly.

 

[CascadeClone]

you say ci-KAY-duh
and I say ci-KAH-duh

 

[Saul_T]

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded god complex, COVERED IN PUDDING

As someone who took nearly 40 years to finally get hearing aids, I've got plenty of these misheard gems.

 

[Althetuna]

I called neoplotian ice cream Napoleon ice cream for much longer than I'd like to admit.

Thinking back that might explain some of the confused looks in got when I went to the grocery store to buy birthday cake and ice cream.

 

[VeloClone]

I grew up shaking par-ME-see-en cheese on my spaghetti. My mother in law still does, but she also warshes clothes and watches wrastling.

 

[cyclones500]

I grew up shaking par-ME-see-en cheese on my spaghetti. My mother in law still does, but she also warshes clothes and watches wrastling.

I pronounced it that way in my youth, was going based on how it looks on the label, "sound it out" approach. I think at least one of my sisters made fun of me for my cluelessness. (That wasn't the only instance of THAT ....)

 

[VeloClone]

I pronounced it that way in my youth, was going based on how it looks on the label, "sound it out" approach. I think at least one of my sisters made fun of me for my cluelessness. (That wasn't the only instance of THAT ....)

I don't think anyone in my household knew how to pronounce it...

 

[matclone]

NPR by the dozens...probably the worst for me since there are no subtitles to see what the name really is.

Still think Lakshmi Singh is "Latch-Me Sing"

Neda Ulaby = Need A Ulu-Baby (whatever that would be)

Never did get Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, just always heard "in DaKAHRRR"

Oh, and sometimes it's Ira Plato and sometimes it's Ira Flate-oh.

Last, but not least, the amazing "Hidden Brain" host, Whatever-His-Name-Is
(it's Shankar Vedantam)

I'm with you on most of those. I used to imagine a hyphenated last name or at least three names was one of the requirements for being on NPR and, until now, I thought Lack was a first name. Ira Plato, for sure. Descendant of the author of The Republic.

 

[jsb]

Instead of wind chill I always want to say wind shield.

 

[cyclones500]

A random example, and it's misheard lyrics, just in another vein ... Karl Auto Group segment (sometimes included with Williams & Blum podcast.

Actual: "It's the Karl way."
How I hear it: "Give the car away."

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Two from my younger days:

Whenever I first read the name Aloysius, I pronounced it A-loy-shush.

And Penelope was Pen-eh-lope

It took a bit of retraining to pronounce them correctly.

Try "Siobhan".