Google Translate misle me. I don't think you need to feel any stigmata about it. -- Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century AD, and

rhyme with misle. >>> Does anyone in BrE-world still use "quisling"? It hasn't >>> been heard here since the 1950s or so. Whereas >>>

subject line fooled me. I was expecting a posting on the verb "misle". (Which I rhyme with ISIL, approximately.) -- Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW http://www.pmoylan.org

. Nothing >> unusual. > > Don't misle him. Everyone has gaps. -- Grab your lip gloss and your pepper spray, sweetheart. Your date's here. -- Keith Mars

). > > Perhaps that's why I sometimes have trouble > with the read/red pronunciation, Yes, there are some words that actively misle you. -- Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW

to "look it up." Fair point. I never looked up the verb "misle" in a dictionary, because I was never in doubt over what it meant. -- Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW

Sorry, I didn't mean to misle you. It was a joke, which makes sense only > if you've heard of Linda Lovelace. But, but ... that was Athel's joke. /Anders, Denmark.

was deliberately misle- > > ading, and he succeeded, > > > > I was not trying to mislead. I was trying to keep the modifications to > your original statement (about

misled (misle + d) by the way > CDB referred to the cartoon. It was a trap; but what I expected to catch was a correction, not polite concurrence. Maybe there was some point to those periods

that might misle people as to their >> etymology? > >Given the widespread use of "misle", I'm surprised that no dictionary >seems to list it as a verb

say "misle". >>>> >>>> Aren't you forgetting mislé, mîslé and mïsle? There's three more right >>>> there. >>

Orally? Misle alert! When I read that I wondered what you meant: "Oh, really?" "O'Reilly"? > Summoned. He was summoned, he didn't receive a summons

of a misle as well. Each time I see it I try to analyse it as > > ['mɪstrɪəl]. > > Me too. Even now, with the word being repeated in the press, I'm still > not getting

there's another misle. When I were a lad I made no conection between the word on the printed page and the word I heard spoken, though I was conscious that they had the same meaning.

that "misle" was a word. > >> I thought I had read somewhere that "mispronounciation" >> was acceptable even though it sounds wrong. -- athel

only rarely misle us. >> >> You say that because you rarely encounter new words. For the most part, >> your vocabulary is fixed and has been since you were in your late

have taught me things like the correct pronunciation of "misle", but that's a fairly minor detail. -- Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Newcastle, NSW, Australia

... > >> Ooops! "led". > > [That]'s one verb that continues to misle me. > > But does it ever mislea you? I'd give that a D-minus. -- bill

whether "misle" > > >> should be pronounced [maizl] or [mIzl]. It's probably regional, but > > >> we never did pin down what the regions were

" would make it clear that > you weren't referring to the verb "misle". > Not to be confused with the Divine Missile. -- Robert Bannister Perth, Western Australia

I was watching Silicon Valley and schooled... http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/01/is-flaccid-

to "misle" (and "redo") and start using it. > Of the alternatives (-i- or -e-), I would prefer "Argentinian" too; but > I use "Argentine

a "misle" for some people. > > It's certainly one I've come across before. > I had not seen "morningsome" before either and, in fact, no-one

In the macintosh newsgroups, someone objected to my use of the word "data" instead of

a childhood misle: for some time I thought >>>>> "awry" rhymed with "glory". >>>> >>>> Didn't we all? I suspect

I've just come across a warning that a stage production includes "mild language".

> "misle", v. is in the OED. It is an old spelling of "mizzle, v.2". >>> >>> mizzle, v.2 >>> Forms: 15 misle, 15 mizzel, 16 mizel

chosen to misle today's Americans into thinking that the >>> novel is about a meretricious lady? >> >> You're confusing "Wayward Ho".

'm not at all sure about this, but I suspect either a mechanical addition of the adverb termination, or some kind of misle from Finnish ("L1 interference"). -- Mike.

be a misle. >> >> >What is a "misle"? >> >> >The definition below doesn't seem to fit, and I didn't even know there was >>