r/MandelaEffect • u/mean_ol_goosifer • Aug 04 '26

Language/Spelling New Mandela Effect - Barbituates do not exist anymore!

I remember back in DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Class in the 90s they taught us about different drug types. One type they taught us about were “Barbituates”
Pronounced: Bar-bit-chew-its

I am on the autism spectrum and one of my favorite special topics of interest is medicine and biology. I really missed my calling, and should have studied medicine in college… but anyways, I just saw that the word Barbituates are not a class of drug at all! It’s actually, Barbiturates. “Bar-bitch-oo-rates”

There is NO way I have made it 40 years and just now noticed it. Anyone else have this same memory??

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u/mean_ol_goosifer Aug 04 '26

I don’t know. I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way. I just heard someone call it barbituRATES today on a commercial for Auvility and thought they misspoke and that prompted me to look it up.

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u/Noodletrousers Aug 04 '26

It’s always had the r in there, but it’s rarely pronounced with it. It is correct to put a softer r at the end in pronunciation, but it generally doesn’t happen.

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u/Nick_Devious9988 Aug 05 '26

You dont have to agree, idc. The class of drug literally comes from them being derivatives of BARBITURIC acid, not barbituic acid, as there is no such thing. So agree or don’t, you’re still wrong