{"id":5831,"date":"2011-02-03T11:11:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2011-02-03T11:11:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:11:15","slug":"ten-practical-lessons-i-learned-from-reading-romance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/ten-practical-lessons-i-learned-from-reading-romance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Practical Lessons I Learned from Reading Romance, #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">by Jackie Barbosa<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wrote about how romance novels improved my understanding for and appreciate of history. Today, I want to talk about lesson #2, which is a little less general and a little more &#8220;OMG, how embarrassing would THAT have been?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, here we go:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lesson #2: The Present Tense of &#8220;Misled&#8221; Is&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;not &#8220;misle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so this is truly one of my more embarrassing memories from my teenage years. I read a lot of romance novels, as I&#8217;ve mentioned, and in many of these books, the heroines in particular would reflect on how they had been &#8220;misled&#8221; by the hero. Whenever I encountered this word in the text, I would pronounce it in my head as &#8220;mi-zled&#8221; with a long &#8220;i&#8221;. I knew perfectly well what it mean&#8211;to be led astray, lied to, etc. But for months, if not years, it never occurred to me that I might be pronouncing it incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>I did, however, occasionally wonder why no one was ever &#8220;misled&#8221; in the present tense. Why did heroines never confront the heroes and say, &#8220;You are deliberately misleing me&#8221; or words to that effect? It did seem&#8230;odd.<\/p>\n<p>Then, one day, it hit me. &#8220;Misled&#8221; was not the past tense of a verb I&#8217;d never seen in the present tense but of &#8220;mislead.&#8221; *headdesk*<\/p>\n<p>All of this I relate to you because, to this day, I credit the relative frequency of the word &#8220;misled&#8221; in romance novels to the fact that I never in public read the word out loud the way I pronounced it in my head. Because that would DEFINITELY have been embarrassing!<\/p>\n<p>So, are there any words you either learned the meaning of or how to pronounce because of its frequency in romance novels. Tell me all about it. Surely I&#8217;m not the only one out there with an embarrassment to share on this front!<\/p>\n<p>Comment to enter to win a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caraelliott.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Cara Elliott&#8217;s <\/strong><\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>TO TEMPT A RAKE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5838\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/february2011_14.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5838\" title=\"totemptarake\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/totemptarake.jpg?resize=220%2C355\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for book details and buy links<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackiebarbosa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Jackie Barbosa<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is the author of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Behind the Red Door<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, a Regency-set novella anthology published by Kensington Books, and the <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Grace Under Fire<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, an erotic short story set in the Georgian period coming from Harlequin Spice Briefs this April. 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