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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Worcestershire.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiasis.

I must be pronouncing them right enough for voice to text to understand me because I certainly cannot spell those.

[–] TheRealKuni 7 points 10 months ago

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiasis.

I must be pronouncing them right enough for voice to text to understand me because I certainly cannot spell those.

Except voice-to-text spelled “pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis” wrong. It did “iasis” instead of “iosis.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can't pronounce worcestershire right. Nobody knows how it should be pronounced.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The pronunciation is easy, but seemingly completely disconnected from the spelling.

Wooster Shur.

[–] uid0gid0 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We just say "pass the what's-it-here sauce"

[–] Briguy 2 points 10 months ago

It's wash your sister sauce

/s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

More sense than any other pronounciation I've heard really.