Misled into error

[Mark A. Mandel]

Tony Glaser <tonyglaser at MINDSPRING.COM> writes:

>>>>>
>Someone on NPR this morning, reporting on the results of a study into the
>usefulness of "back belts" for certain lifting jobs, said that people had
>been "mizzled" (misled) into supposing that the belts were effective.
>A. Murie

Hard to believe! My father used to pronounce it like that as a joke,
usually when he was discussing people who he described as "telligent".
<<<<<

Not hard for me to believe. My wife grew up saying it this way until the
light finally dawned. ("Dawn breaks over Marblehead", as we say in
Massachusetts.) I didn't; I used a long "i", /'maI.zLd/.

-- Mark A. Mandel