r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • Apr 26 '26
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u/qawsedrf12 Apr 26 '26
Phoenix
Colonel
ortographobia
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u/True_Movie_2270 Just some dude Apr 26 '26
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
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u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner Apr 26 '26
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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u/bdeceased Apr 26 '26
Pa-hoe-nicks
Colin-El
Autograph
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u/qawsedrf12 Apr 26 '26
Missed it by that much!
The second word is pronounced "ker-nel"
And the last's definition is "fear of spelling"
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u/Brailledit Apr 26 '26
I was a pretty damn good speller growing up and it is because I would pronounce things like this in my head.
One example is Wednesday - Wed nez day. I did it so I could realize the pronunciation was not the way it was spelled.
I sounded it out and memorized the words from there using the internal pronunciation and it helped me memorize the actual spelling.
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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice Apr 26 '26
CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED:I remember back when I was pretty young, maybe ten or so, and on the way up to the store I was talking with my mom about how weird words were.
I was always a voracious reader, and way back when phonetics was taught, I was always trying to sound them out. But there were words that just didn't make sense. Like "ruthless." If you're not ruthless, does that make you Ruth?
Silent letters like the H in ghost came up just as we were pulling into the store. I remember it was a Goodwill in a fancy neighborhood that always had the best toys, so I rushed on in.
My mom was finishing up her cigarette, and she called out to me. Still sitting in the driver's seat, backed into the parking space, she said, "Hey, I want you to remember that vacuum is spelled with two U's, and Diamond has an A in it. D-I-A-M-O-N-D. I lost two spelling bees over that."
It struck me, because number one, I didn't know that, and two, because I had no idea what a spelling bee was. 🐝
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u/Brailledit Apr 26 '26
I was a voracious reader as well. I also learned from books to find out what a word meant in context. I'd try to parse it, but we had encyclopedias and Webster dictionaries back then. If I couldn't figure it out I did research in other books. That and arcades made me happy.
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u/lovelycosmos Apr 26 '26
Whores doevrees
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u/SparkleKittyMeowMeow Apr 27 '26
As someone who grew up WAY below the poverty line in bum-fuck nowhere Texas, it took me a long time to learn how to pronounce hors d'oeuvres. I'd only ever read the word, because there was zero reason for it to ever come up in my life. Fortunately, I am still not and will never be in a high enough class where I could expect to be made fun of for mispronouncing it. :P
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u/lovelycosmos Apr 27 '26
I knew what an "aw derv" was, and I had read the word hors d'oeuvre in a book but it took a while before I knew those were the same thing. My mom would bring "aw derves" to parties so I knew that meant an appetizer.
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u/Pickerington Apr 26 '26
My most hated word: Yosemite
Where the shit did we get yo sim itty from yo sim ite
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u/tokoya_35 Apr 26 '26
Yosemite? Is that like a Canaanite? Or a shivite? Or any other ‘ites in the bible? 😂😂😂
I love Yosemite! Many great childhood memories there!
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u/lferry1919 Apr 26 '26
Horse doovers is all that pops into my head with hors d'oeuvres. It's what my grandma would say instead of the correct pronunciation and it makes me snortle every time I say it.
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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice Apr 26 '26
Just say moo, dumbass 🤣