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submitted 1 year ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm picking "Colonel" needs to be respelled to match how it's pronounced.

Try to pick a word no one else has picked. What word are you respelling?

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[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Highpurrbolley.

I pronounced it hyper-bowl in my head for a loooong time until I had to say it out loud one time and got laughed at.

[-] StudioLE@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

As someone who read a lot as a child I still find myself saying hyperbowl. I'd certainly heard the correct pronunciation but it wasn't until very late that I made the connection to the word I'd learned by reading.

[-] isthischris@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was it my 30s before I found how to say it properly. It really doesn’t help that hyperbolic is spoken properly. Hy-per-bol-ic. Damn you written words.

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fact that hyperbolic is pronounced like that makes it so much fucking worse

[-] holland@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Aphrodite, Hyperbole.. Greek Eta sounds like ee.

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