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Sundae Girl - I am with you on the reading vs. hearing it spoken issue.
I remember a particular incident in 5th grade. We all had to take turns reading out of a book that the teacher picked for the day. I was (am) so incredibly shy - especially about public speaking, so naturally my deepest fear was that the teacher would call on me to read out loud. As my classmates would read their section, I would pre-read the next one just in case I got picked.
I had a "thank god" moment when the section I thought I had mastered was assigned to another kid... He read it, and he said a word that made me look back down at my own book and think "what? "
For some reason I saw the word debris (day-brees) as a word that should be pronounced derbis (der-bis).
Talk about a sweaty palms
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