Words you’ve gotten wrong your whole life

[Djmac1031]

Perhaps it is. Never heard of Deuce Coup. That actually makes perfect sense with revved in it.

It's actually Deuce Coupe. Spelled it wrong.

Apparently it's a slang term for an old Ford Model car.

The Beach Boys had a song called Little Deuce Coupe.

Anyway. It still sounds like "douche."

 

[jsmiam]

this article has the full story from the horses mouths: (although personally I think they just said “douche” for a laugh. When my azimuth is out of alignment, it doesn’t affect just one single word out of hundreds. )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinded_by_the_Light

And oh my god, the Springsteen original sucks! Life was better when I didn’t know about it! ;-)

 

[WyreBendr0417]

I've always gotten 'oligarch' wrong, thinking it was 'ogliarch'. Also, I will forever be haunted by 'archetypal' and archetypical'. Both meaning the same thing, but to me, the former always sounds wrong.

WB