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Showerthoughts

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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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[–] tinwhiskers@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I said automaton wrong for years. I said auto-maton instead of au-tomoton. I still cringe a bit thinking about it :-/

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I only just woke up so forgive me if you're right, did you mean automation?

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[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 3 points 11 months ago

You can just look up words in the dictionary and look up the phonetic pronunciation key to refresh your memory. It pays to do this every once in a while.

[–] Seudo@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

We've probably all said a sentence that no other person in history has ever said.

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • genre
  • only
  • gif
  • croissant
  • Aloysius
  • Edinburgh
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[–] newbeni@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I got Linux wrong for a while

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Contiguous. Didn't find out about that one till I got to college... That was embarrassing as f***.

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago

Likely to be “schedule”

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

At some point in my life I started enunciating every syllable of the word "comfortable," where as most Americans opt for "kuhmf-tr-bl." I don't remember when or why I started doing otherwise, but I can't go back now.

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