What commonly known thing did you learn at an embarrassingly older age?

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Anonymous wrote:That realtor is not pronounced "real-uh-tor"

again, this is regional.

Jewelry and Realtor are pronounced differently depending on where you were raised.

Huh. I always just assumed that these were simply commonly mispronounced words, rather than words with multiple pronunciations that are considered correct. Like mixing up the vowels in “nuclear” by pronouncing it “nook-you-lar.”

No one so far has offered up the supposed correct pronunciations. So I’ll still with the allegedly incorrect versions.

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Anonymous wrote:Wrote in one of my college papers "escape goat" rather than "a scape goat".

And then I learned it wasn't "a scape goat" but "a scapegoat".

Teacher here. I have seen skate goat and space goat in essays.

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Anonymous wrote:The strings sewn into dresses and sweaters (hanger strings)

https://www.dailyedge.ie/hanger-strings-are-so-annoying-2865909-Jul2016/

I didn’t know that you were supposed to cut the thread out of a new coat pocket. For years I worse an expense coat with flaps and no pockets. I just didn’t want to rip it.

I see this in DC all the time and this drives me crazy!!! Also on women skirt's slits, or fabric label on the sleeve of coat or jacket. I always feel like to approach that persona and to cut it off. I grew up in a third world country and everyone knew this. It is mind blowing how this self identified "educated" elite liberals don't know such a thing!

Why on earth would you associate this with politics? I see people from various political backgrounds all over the country do this.

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that quinoa is not pronounced "quin" "o" "a"

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Word ----- Correct Pronunciation:

REALTOR "REAL-TORE"

JEWELRY "juul-ree"

QUINOA "keen-wah"

NUCLEAR "nu-kleer"

MARYLAND "Murr-lan". heheheh. JK. Its "mare-land"


You know that dictionaries online allow you to click a little volume button and you can hear the correct pronunciation. So even if you don't know how to read the short and long vowels, you can hear it audibly.

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Anonymous wrote:Word ----- Correct Pronunciation:

REALTOR "REAL-TORE"

JEWELRY "juul-ree"

QUINOA "keen-wah"

NUCLEAR "nu-kleer"

MARYLAND "Murr-lan". heheheh. JK. Its "mare-land"


You know that dictionaries online allow you to click a little volume button and you can hear the correct pronunciation. So even if you don't know how to read the short and long vowels, you can hear it audibly.

JOJOBA "ho-ho-ba"

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I used to, but he will never admit to any mistake or change his behavior accordingly,.so I stopped. This is why our Tupperware lids are all warped beyond usefulness (he insists on leaving lids on in microwave even after being shown the nearly invisible instructions not to on the lid). Last week he made a cake for our son's birthday and put plates over the round pans when he took them out of the oven to cool, then refused to acknowledge that this might be why the cake was soggy not "moist," as he insisted.

What was his reason for putting plates over the round pans while they were cooling?

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Anonymous wrote:For a word game competition in college i pronounced Sobriquet as so- bri - que - T.

Everyone laughed at me . Worse when it was their turn to speak, they delibertely purposely mispronounced all the words they were using i.e. K - nife, buffe-T, etc. The audience, the comp and all the participants were in stiches!

I still die a thousand deaths when i think of this.

On a related note (there is a theme here), I pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl. My BF at the time asked if it was a larger version of the superbowl. Cringe!

You are not the one who should be embarrassed by this.

Confession, I have never had reason to speak the word but if I did I would probably say the T, that's what it sounds like in my head--even though I have 2 years of college French and even though DH and I enjoy pronouncing French place names in the US (like Des Moines) with (more or less) correct French pronunciation.

An acquaintance of my DS is in his early 30s and we are constantly amazed by him. He thought bathroom fans are required by code specifically to get rid of smells (he called it the s***fan, maybe he thinks it's what the s*** hits??). He asked me one day if there are still nuns.

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Anonymous wrote:" How to tell left from right. "

Baseball: right-handers hit to left field, left-handers hit to right field. Odd that I never confuse left field and right field.

Or if you point your index figure up and your thumb out, your left hand makes a "L."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:That realtor is not pronounced "real-uh-tor"

again, this is regional.

Jewelry and Realtor are pronounced differently depending on where you were raised.

Huh. I always just assumed that these were simply commonly mispronounced words, rather than words with multiple pronunciations that are considered correct. Like mixing up the vowels in “nuclear” by pronouncing it “nook-you-lar.”

No one so far has offered up the supposed correct pronunciations. So I’ll still with the allegedly incorrect versions.

My friend who grew up in Baltimore says "Jewl-a-ree".

this is also interesting - and for me is accurate
https://www.thejournal.ie/maps-americans-pronounce-different-words-938575-Jun2013/

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Anonymous wrote:Despite both being Christian, white people and black people don't go to the same churches

And Korean churches, and other divided churches. I learned this in my early 20s, after growing up Muslim. While I am no longer practicing, one of the best things about being a minority religion is that you don't have a lot of religious establishments, so you all gather together. Indians & South Asians, Arabs, Africans, Black Muslims, Asian Muslims, European/White Muslims and a few Hispanic Muslims, converts, etc. All praying side by side in one room.

I will say that the gender segregation was very prominent though, and still is to a slightly lesser extent. And I was, and still am bothered by it. But growing up I had no idea churches often divided along race/ethnic lines.

What are you talking about? Hindu people go to mosques to pray and muslims don't go to durga temple.

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Anonymous wrote:Until college I thought it was “for all intensive purposes”

+1!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Word ----- Correct Pronunciation:

REALTOR "REAL-TORE"

JEWELRY "juul-ree"

QUINOA "keen-wah"

NUCLEAR "nu-kleer"

MARYLAND "Murr-lan". heheheh. JK. Its "mare-land"


You know that dictionaries online allow you to click a little volume button and you can hear the correct pronunciation. So even if you don't know how to read the short and long vowels, you can hear it audibly.

JOJOBA "ho-ho-ba"

GOVERNMENT "gom'nent"

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Haven’t read them all, but the signs for exits in highways and interstates are on the top right if the exit is on the right and o the top left if the exit is in the left. I’d been driving for 25 years before someone pointed this out to be.

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Anonymous wrote:In my late 20s at a semi-fancy restaurant I ordered sweetbreads thinking it was sweet bread. I had no idea it was pancreas. I don’t eat meat.

I also learned this in my 30's, but it still gives me pause every time I see it on a menu. Why on earth is it named that??