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submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see it everywhere, reddit comments, lemmy, news articles and mastodon itself. How did this misspelling become so common?

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[–] baronvonj 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just from the way it's pronounced in English: ma · stuh · daan. It sounds more like an 'a' than an 'o'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

in british english we pronounce it as mahs • tuh • don

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I always said ma stow don.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I pronounce it mas · to · don. Maybe the miss-spelled name for it is based on how people pronounce it verbarly.