| I remember wondering why a name that sounds like a woman's undergarment would be chosen for a magical item that summons an efreet, not realizing that 1) it's pronounced BRAY-zhur, and 2) in Yankee territory, it is still commonly used to refer to an open fired grill. To me, "brazier" was just the weirdest imaginable word to use for a charcoal burner.
I was a teenager in high school before I "got" pearl of wisdom.
I used to wonder why bugbears lacked any insectile traits.
Bastard sword... sounded naughty. The concept of mixing highborn blood with low did not really sink in until high school as well.
Tarantella. I now recognize this as genius-inspired wordplay. At the time I thought it was really lame to misspell tarantula to name a giant spider monster.
"Ochre" means earthy yellow. It's pronounced O-kur.
Hippogriffs are not the product of the same logic that got us the owlbear, but rather, a mythological griffin variant in their own right.
Rapine is usually pronounced RAPE-ine, not ra-PEEN. It comes from the same root word as "rob." Your mother still doesn't like the way it sounds.
Quisling just sounds like the perfect name for a small, diabolic creature. It actually means "traitor" and comes from the surname of a Nazi collaborator, making it not archaic but recent and politically sensitive.
Lemures are not primates. That would be lemurs. They are Roman spirits, and handily, also sound like Lemuria, an accursed land in the vicnity of Atlantis.
Footpad is a real word that refers to a robber on foot, not some weird metaphorical reference to a cat. | 
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