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disheveled
How can I have read that word a gazillion times and never actually realised that I was reading it all wrong? It's not "dishelved" like something fallen off a shelf. The V and the L are in exactly the opposite order and there's an E between them! Am I dyzlexic? Also, this just goes to show that no one actually says disheveled, except when reading overly eloquent stories aloud, since I've obviously never heard it said before today.
As illustration of this, you get a picture of me and my horrendously disheveled hair laughing at our own silliness.
PS: After listening to most of the first three chapters being read by this American bloke, I felt tempted to try it myself. For a sample of my (not-so-good) English reading skills (the tail-end of chapter three), go here: http://tiny.cc/4vurqw
That word that's impossible to hear and sounds like stifflating? It's 'deflating'. ""Fine," Sirius says, deflating." That's what I was aiming for there. Anything else you'd like cleared up, just ask...
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Almandin
Sat 12 Jan 2013 02:09
Etymology: from old French des + chevel = 'off hair', originally meaning 'uncovered hair, hair hanging loose', transferred meaning 'unruly hair', now also applicable to other rufflable things like clothes.
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