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Why do so many people write Mastadon instead of Mastodon? (jlai.lu)
submitted 1 year ago by alex@jlai.lu to c/mastodon@lemmy.ml
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This has become a pet peeve of mine and as a non-native English speaker I just don't understand why so many people make that typo in the first place- what is it?

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[โ€“] ramble81@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah to add to that it is pronounced more like "Mass-tah-don" rather than "Mass-toe-don". The "tah" portion makes people think it's spelled with a "ta" since that would give you that pronunciation normally instead of "to". One of the many insane quirks of the English language stealing from other languages over the centuries.

[โ€“] alex@jlai.lu 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, nice explanation, thanks!