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[dreamer_easy]

The pushmi-pullyu. As a small child I didn't grasp the pun and pronounced this "push-mipple-you". There was also a device in a Donald Duck comic called the "enlarging machine" which I called the "enargling machine".

ETA: Mum reckons I actually said "pushapummel". he he he

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[tysolna]

Gods, yes... I did the same (only in German). I read "Relakme" instead of "Reklame" (advertising) for the longest time, and "lebendig" (alive) as leben-dick (not English lol) (fat with life)... and dropped syllables left right and center to make words which made sense to me in the context I had, even if they became something else, and some other context, entirely. Ah, the fun! :D