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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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[–] rbhfd 14 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Not exactly related to the question, but as a non-native English speaker, whenever I read something related to weights in imperial, e.g., 150 lbs, my mind reads it as 150 lubes.

I know it's pounds, if I would read it out loud, I would say pounds cause I'm not a weirdo (well...). But still, my internal monologue has lbs = lubes

[–] Carlcarla 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel you. My inner voice reads this as "libs".

[–] xorollo 6 points 10 months ago

Elbs

[–] afox 3 points 10 months ago

I love your brain

[–] afox 3 points 10 months ago

I love your brain

[–] Pr0v3n 2 points 10 months ago

Right? I’m a native English speaker (Aussie, so…loosely native English speaker) and my first exposure to “Lbs” was for the weight of Pokemon in the physical red Pokédex handbook, so I always just said they weighed “X labs”, still don’t immediately correct it in my head 25+ years later.

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

If anyone is wondering why this is abbreviation for it, it is because the full name for pound weight in latin is libra poundo. We use the libra part for the abbrievation into lbs but pounds for the actual common name.

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

I was the same except I said it as "ibs" was quite a while I was thinking that when I was younger. My internal monologue still says it this way anytime I read it even though I know now

[–] MoonMoon 1 points 10 months ago

For me its always been "limbs"