I've just seen this gem in an email:
...fully ofay with what's required.
Every time I see something like this, I am reminded (painfully) of being in my German class (only four students, it was not a popular class) when I was 11, and our German teacher -- an egotistical, self-congratulatory, moustachioed Scot with a Lothian accent, who insisted he'd been in the German army (only much later did I come to wonder
which army) -- wrote "awry" on the blackboard and asked each of us in turn to pronounce it. He came to me last, as even then I had a reputation for being
au fait with words and grammar. I remember his utter disappointment awhen I, too, mispronounced it. That was somehow worse than the scorn he meted out to those he did not expect to get it right. I knew the word and what it meant, but had only ever seen it written down.
But this is the reverse, of course — someone who has heard the words, but never seen them written down or, perhaps, not recognised them in writing.
Sam
