Boy, ain't that the truth!  For a long time as a youth, reading a lot of
science fiction, I had this verb in my head "infrare" (rhymes with "red
hair"); it means to manipulate light so that its wavelength falls just below
the visible spectrum.  Light that has gone through this process has been
"infrared" (rhymes with "red-haired").  This verb and participle existed
side-by-side with the adjective "infra-red" for a decade or two before it
dawned on me...

I gather the analogous confusion over "misled" is much more common.

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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2023 06:58

....But a lot of my vocabulary comes from reading, so that could be very
wrong.

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