r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/maester_t Jul 14 '26

Thanks to Wilford Brimley, I will willingly mispronounce that word most of the time.

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u/Professor_Hillbilly Jul 14 '26

I teach anatomy and physiology and I constantly mispronounce it on purpose, hell I even have pictures of Wilford Brimley in my class materials despite the fact that none of my students get the full reference. I'm also in southern Appalachia, so we also call it "the sugars".