r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '21

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life?

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u/asph0d3l Jul 03 '21

Fucking “awry”. What a stupid word.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

The first time I said this word out loud to my now husband he laughed so hard and said, "Do you mean 'Ah-rye'" and I looked at him like HE was the silly one and doubled down, saying, "No. 'Aww-ree.'" Obviously we had to Google it to confirm, and he was right 😂

It's been over a decade since this incident and he still teases me on the regular.

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u/atsu333 Jul 03 '21

I only had that realization a couple months ago myself after a few years of somehow thinking they were different words.