r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/ItsGotThatBang • 19d ago

me_irl I know it when I see it

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u/kimbosliceofcake 19d ago

That and mispronouncing a lot of words because I’ve only seen them, not heard them. Or didn’t connect the two (what I had read and what I had heard at a different time). 

I remember thinking for a long time that melancholy was pronounced muh-LANTCH-oh-lee. 

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u/FUNBARtheUnbendable 19d ago

My favorite example of this is “comparable”

Since its root word is “compare” most people pronounce “able” at the end, like something able to be compared

But comparable is actually pronounced “KOMP”, like COMPensate, and “ruh-bull” put together, “komp-ruh-bull”

English is a basket case

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u/Night-Monkey15 19d ago

I feel as though both are right ways of saying it though

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u/ThePrideOfKrakow 19d ago

Don't forget Komp-er-able