Once upon a time I taught myself to read, and then my grammar school managed to not instruct me on phonetics, thus I have a tendency to mispronounce words--the most egregious is "epitome", which in my mind should be spelt differently if they want to pronounce it that way--and I *still* read it as the past tense of "misle".

A word game my cousin plays--take a plural noun, which becomes a verb (i.e., the plural "chapels" becomes the present tense of the verb "to chapel") and then figure out what the verb means. It's a wonderful time-killer on long drives, if there are signs to read.