Maybe you grew up speaking a language where penultimate and antepenultimate's cognates are in common use, like Spanish. I still remember hearing a Mexican frie

Maybe you grew up speaking a language where penultimate and antepenultimate's cognates are in common use, like Spanish. I still remember hearing a Mexican friend whose English was, at the time, very basic use the word "polemical" and I could hardly believe it. I'm not sure most English speakers could use it correctly; I'm all but certain that I at the time couldn't.