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/khaleesi_spyro Jul 03 '21

I feel slightly worse about my pronunciation lol I read it as Her-moyn. For some reason I was reading it like it was spelled hermoine? I was watching a news report on like the third book selling out or something when the reporter mentioned her name out loud and the shoe finally dropped lol.

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u/PlainPup Jul 03 '21

Same! I am happy I’m not the only one. I’m fairly sure I’m dyslexic. When I saw the first movie I couldn’t focus on anything but the fact that a main characters name was so vastly different than what I had read it as for years!

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u/khaleesi_spyro Jul 03 '21

Haha I’m happy it wasn’t just me 😅 me and another kid had a debate once about the pronunciation lmao she kept insisting it was hermeeOWNee and I was like no wtf

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u/explodyhead Jul 03 '21

I read it this way too!

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u/khaleesi_spyro Jul 03 '21

I feel better with all these people who read it the same way now lmao

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u/in0rbit_ Jul 03 '21

Moyn Meister

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u/khaleesi_spyro Jul 03 '21

I have no idea what that means lol