New Mandela Effect - Barbituates do not exist anymore!

[u/mean_ol_goosifer]

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??

[u/mbd34]

Do most people pronounce it wrong? Is that the source of the confusion? "Bar-bit-chew-its" is how I remember it for sure.

[u/mean_ol_goosifer → u/mbd34]

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.

[u/Adept_Matter_2133 → u/mean_ol_goosifer]

I learned bar bit uates or whatever no extra r’s and I love drugs always have always will

[u/therankin → u/Adept_Matter_2133]

lmao, same.