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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I got Linux wrong for a while

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Likely to be “schedule”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 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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