A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.
I once spoke with a Southerner about favorite books. They recommended a series they called "The Will of Time".
Only later I found out they were talking about The Wheel of Time.
And that is fine, when/if someone corrects you, you explain that you have never heard the word spoken, just read it.
Tri-ummm-vir-ate
This right here! I tell my kids not to give someone a hard time mispronouncing a word because it means they learned it from reading.
Thing is, language is constantly changing, so if enough people say it wrong, it makes it correct over time.
As an example, people have been using nauseous incorrectly for so long, that it's now correct again.
February
I pronounced puddle as poodle up into my thirtys. Maybe I didn't use it too often so it wasn't noticed. My second wife did. Absolutely scundered!
Insurmountainable - Michael Scott
ITT: people who care about how you represent yourself are evil, apparently.
I suspect people got a little butt-hurt when they discover their shirt is a little stuffed.
I don't know if this is weird, but someone told me I say "ideology" weird because I say "id-ee-aa-luh-jee" instead of "ai-dee-aa-luh-jee", and I still never changed the pronunciation anyway.
Kibosh
My teacher told me that he'd fail me if I mispronounced "Data" as "Da ta" and not "Dait a". So I always mispronounce it
Is it a dialect training class? Because otherwise that feels like boarderline racism to penalise someone for having a different an accent.
"Da ta" vs "date-ah" is regional. If you're pronouncing it "wrong" move across the pond and suddenly you'll be right.
I would say you're actually witnessing the very real phenomenon of language-drift. Languages evolve for a billion reasons, but there's no right or wrong state of language.
That's why we distinguish between language, dialect, idiolect, sociolect. Each bearer of language is also a producer of language. Their version is just theirs, in whatever many ways that makes that version unique.
(Check linguistics to better understand this process of language-drifting )
Ja-lap-e-no chips
First time I saw giraffe in a book I thought it was pronounced Grr-Ah-Fee.
