Just realized that "upside down" means "the up side is down", making it upside down
Just realized that "upside down" means "the up side is down", making it upside down
Oh, I used to do this all the time. You see a word in print, but you never hear anybody say it, so you wind up pronouncing it wrong.
I think the best was when I pronounced “misled” as my-seld because I thought it was the past tense of “misle”.