DandomRude@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-223 days agoWhat were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong?message-squaremessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1147
arrow-up1147message-squareWhat were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong?DandomRude@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-223 days agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squaresodalite@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-223 days agoonly ever read the word cyan and eventually learned I’d been pronouncing it wrong my whole life when i said it out loud in conversation
minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-223 days agoSame problem here, but with “Yosemite”. As a scandinavian I have no basis for hearing it spoken, so in my head I pronounced it as if it was a very street way of greeting Jewish people.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 days agoDid you happen to learn this during an Among us Stream?
minus-squaresodalite@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days agono, it was when i was a cashier
only ever read the word cyan and eventually learned I’d been pronouncing it wrong my whole life when i said it out loud in conversation
How were your pronouncing it?
see-EN instead of SY-en
Same problem here, but with “Yosemite”. As a scandinavian I have no basis for hearing it spoken, so in my head I pronounced it as if it was a very street way of greeting Jewish people.
Did you happen to learn this during an Among us Stream?
no, it was when i was a cashier