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  • charlytune
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    1 year ago

    Highpurrbolley.

    I pronounced it hyper-bowl in my head for a loooong time until I had to say it out loud one time and got laughed at.

    • StudioLE@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      As someone who read a lot as a child I still find myself saying hyperbowl. I’d certainly heard the correct pronunciation but it wasn’t until very late that I made the connection to the word I’d learned by reading.

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        1 year ago

        I was it my 30s before I found how to say it properly. It really doesn’t help that hyperbolic is spoken properly. Hy-per-bol-ic. Damn you written words.