I didn’t realize I was hearing that wrong. Thanks.
For years I was confused by Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light”,
specifically the lyric: “wrapped up like a douche, another runner in the night”
Turns out it’s “revved up like a deuce.” Doh.
A man stood looking in the ditch at his car that had veered off the highway, the tape player was still going, and he thought he heard the singer sayin, “you picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.”
Just peruse a few ‘lyrics’ sites and you will find what the old game of ‘telephone’ so clearly illustrates… three sets of ears begets at least three different interpretations. 
For years I could have sworn that the Queen song “One Vision” ended with the words “fried chicken”. Imagine my relief when I found out it was really…
…Fried chicken!
From http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1510& …
The final line, Freddie sings the words “Fried chicken” instead of what almost certainly should be the climax of shouting “one vision”. While in the studio, the band made numerous versions different ‘spoof’ versions of the song with altered lyrics. One of there turned the song into a shopping list. As a joke, and to confirm that they were not ‘taking themselves too seriously’ they left this line in the final version of the song.
- Andy, Halifax, England
I love the ending of the song when they sing “just give me give me give me FRIED CHICKEN!” Its a hilarious input that Jim Hutton pursuaded Freddie to add. But was later put off as just a joke until Freddie played it for him. And at the end Freddie indeed put in the Fried Chicken Part in it. Very good song and I always crack up at the end.- Alicia, Tamaqua, PA
I’ve heard tell of a recipe for stew that’s made by biling the ingredients in one of them crotchpots.
I recall wathcing a video entitled “Queen, The Magic Years”, and there were quite a few out takes of that song, one of which included the ‘fried chicken’ ending. Anyway, they all had a blast recording it so they decided to keep the ending ‘fried chicken’.
They were my favorite band as a kid, still are actually. Miss you Freddie!
When my sister was still in a high chair, one day at dinner she very proudly announced, “I’m a GRILL!”
Hey, my family’s rife with that sort of thing. Pinot nee-Or, Yick-a-ma (for jicama), bra-Shetta (for bruschetta). Mom still calls astilbe Ashtabeulah.
I’ve tried to help. sigh
Hmmm… not quite the same, but the tendency locally is to “warsh end wrench year lawn dairy in the zinc”.
Nonsense. God is called Harold, as all English schoolchildren know. “Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be Thy name…”
Steve
And when the writing was on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast, what did it say? Why, “Mene, mene, tekel who farted?”
Steve
Its one o’dem die cod o me thangs…
If ya get to heaven ya can call him Art
Down here he’s Harold.
well, unless ya really upset him…
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Common ones on the BBC: “deteriate,” “seckertry” (secretary), “Febry” or “Feb-you-erry,” “Laura Norder.”
Steve
“Feb-you-errry” I hear a lot, but I don’t understand “Laura Norder”. 
djm
While stationed in Norfolk Va I heard people pronounce Norfolk several ways.
Nawfalk.
Nawfuk
Norfuk
Those could be put down to dialect but these really grated my nerves; “Norfork” and “Northfork”.
A doc friend of mine told me that some of his patients worry about getting “sick as hell” anemia.
A guy I know, trying to impress an attractive young woman when they were both at a college party, boasted that he played the bass, except he pronounced it as if it were a fish. When I first met him, he liked to talk philosophically about this or that paradigm, pronouncing it paradijjum, and sometimes we’d take up literary matters, covering all the many gendres.
But then when I was younger I thought awry was pronounced as if it rhymed with Laurie. 
One of my favorites from my daughter came when we were watching Disney’s Hercules. At one point Philoctetes shouts to Hercules about his love interest, Megara: “She’s a FRAUD!” And my daughter turned to me and said, highly puzzled, “She’s a frog???”
Carol
It’s Norfolk ‘n’ good. 
Steve
Law and order. Duh.
Steve