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I'm not sure if this will be relevant to its longer-term success, but I notice that the word "Mastodon" seems to be very easy to misspell -- In the comments her
by needle0 8y ago
I'm not sure if this will be relevant to its longer-term success, but I notice that the word "Mastodon" seems to be very easy to misspell -- In the comments here alone I already find "Mastadon", "Mastadoon", etc.
- piotrkubisa 8y agoI am curious why they have misspelled the Mastodon? In many languages it is written and spelled in the same way. I am not native speaker but I would pronounce mastadon and mastodon in the same way (ˈmæstədɑn), but hardly I can imagine to write down as mastadon. > First attested 1813, from the New Latin genus name Mastodon (1806), coined by French naturalist Georges Cuvier, from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós, “breast”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”), from the similarity of the mammilloid projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mastodon https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mastodon
- Dayshine 8y agoIt doesn't have to be misspelling. More likely it's forgetting which word it's supposed to be. I've only seen the word written/used in museums, so I'm unlikely to remember whether it's a mastadon, mastodon, matadon, etc.
- vxNsr 8y agoIn the US at least people spell based on how words sound in their head if they don't really remember the correct way to spell it. No one is thinking about the history of the word, in fact I personally was wondering why they chose an elephant as their mascot until I remembered what a Mastodon was.