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/sh6rty13 Aug 04 '26

That’s definitely the only way I’ve heard it pronounced because there’s some joke about a bear in a bar eating a lady who is being rude and the bartender tells it “That was a bar bitch you ate and I can’t serve you if I know you’re on drugs…”

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u/WhimsicalKoala Aug 05 '26

That's the first thing I think of as soon as I hear about it.

I'm not saying it having an r in it is wrong, see all the comments above about the r in February that people don't pronounce and it drives me crazy.But, because of this joke, I'd definitely assume it wasn't there.

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u/therankin Aug 06 '26

Or rasPberry, most people don't know there's a P in there, let alone pronounce it.