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[–] 3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

Does anyone else feel like a lot of bone apple tea comes from people who learned a word or phrase by reading it using voice to text to write about it?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    My ignorance is based around how it's pronounced, not how its spelt. I read prodigiously, i might see a word i have read semi frequently and still be pronouncing it incorrectly in my head. I am loathe to use such words in conversation and prove to everyone I'm as stupid as they suspected, albeit as I age I do care less in that regard :)

    Last one was about 8 years ago, misanthrope.

    The other thing that crops up occasionally are words pronounced differently based on regional variance. I was watching an Attenborough documentary and he used arc-a-pell-aa-go and I use arc-a-pell-ego

    My gf agreed with me (we're Australian), now I pronounce it the same way Attenborough does , much to my gf's annoyance but in my defence, it's called English, so I defer.

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