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My wife has been in the US for about 25 years at this point, and we just had our talk about how to pronounce February, Wednesday, and turmeric yesterday.
by 13of40 4y ago
My wife has been in the US for about 25 years at this point, and we just had our talk about how to pronounce February, Wednesday, and turmeric yesterday.
- wincy 4y agoI don’t like the correct people when they say Wed-ness-day though. I wish I lived in a world where the pronunciation made sense like that.
- memling 4y agoThink "weddinsday," and it might make more sense. I hear that mostly from British-English speakers though.
- dmichulke 4y agoEven more so because Wodan / Woden and Odin are different names for the same god who is also the namesake for that day.. Weddin just lies on the spectrum between Wodan and Odin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday
- BrotherBisquick 4y agoI'm a native English speaker in the US and I've been spelling turmeric incorrectly for decades. When I noticed that first 'r' I questioned everything I thought I knew about the universe...
- tragomaskhalos 4y agoI spent the first 50+ years of life under the misapprehension that there is a singer/actress called Barbara StreisLand
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoHeisenberg's Law of English: you can pronounce words like this correctly or you can spell them correctly, but not both from the same person.