Every time I see the title Curious George Takes a Train pop up in a sales report, I misread it as "Curious George Takes the A Train." (EVERY. SINGLE. TIME!) My brain then IMMEDIATELY begins playing a loop of Duke Ellington‘s "Take the A Train." The tune is a rather pleasant accompaniment to my work, so I don’t actually mind it, but I kick myself every time for not being able to read this title properly. I’m going to coin my own disorder here and say that I have swinglexia.
Last weekend when Gareth and I were in New York City visiting friends and attending MoCCA (more on that soon!),at one point we hopped a ride on the A train, and my brain immediately snapped to sounds of Duke Ellington and images of Curious George. I’m picturing a new ad campaign for the MTA…
Anything trip you up like this on a regular basis? Are there things you misread with regularity? If so, please share.
I ride the A train every day and every day I hear Ellington band in my head when I see the train pull into the station. If only the lowly L train had Billy Strayhorn write a song about it.
I once had fun reading DON’T LET THE BUS DRIVE OVER THE PIGEON.
Sorry to divert the theme, Alison, but what did you think of the Scholastic sudy about teen reading habits? I think about 5 million Stephanie Meyer fans might thnk they’ve arrived at a debatable conclusion…
This doesn’t technically count as misreading, but every time I see the new Emily Jenkins book “What Happens on Wednesdays” I immediately fill it in with “What happens on Wednesdays STAYS on Wednesdays”. I am such a nerd.
I met a kid not too long ago who was familiar with the A Train song, but was under the impression it was written by the Duke Of Wellington…
I was renently in Seattle visiting my brother and his family; we had just dropped off a friend at the UW hospital dental clinic, gone under an underpass near the lake, when I spotted a sign that read “Department of Gnome Sciences”!