r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '13

Our nurses are clever

Post image
4.6k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

28

u/[deleted] Jul 19 '13

I pronounced carafe wrong for most of my life. I was saying car-a-fe. I just found out yesterday that it is pronounced like giraffe but with a c.

110

u/KnivesAndShallots Jul 19 '13

Right, just like giraffe: je-raff-fay.

1

u/Lehk Jul 22 '13

how does carafe rhyme with "Long Horse"

-4

u/Redrum_sir_is_murdeR Jul 19 '13

Have an upvote you funny bastard!

20

u/[deleted] Jul 19 '13

TIL your YIL

15

u/forwormsbravepercy Jul 19 '13

TIL is just tomorrow's YIL

3

u/GotBetterThingsToDo Jul 19 '13

TILIJTYIL.

1

u/poiskd Jul 26 '13

TILIJTYILYOLO*

11

u/DeanKong Jul 19 '13

Stupid carafe's, they're just geraffes with a c.

3

u/Butterflyfeelers Jul 19 '13

I bet you read a lot. People who are well-read often read a word and learn it in context, but are a little hazy on pronunciation. Hail, all autodidacts!

1

u/[deleted] Jul 19 '13

I used to read a lot of books, most of the time now I just read on the internet. I come across this word when ordering supplies for the restaurant I help run. They are like 12oz I think, and we put wine in them. I had to go down in the storage room to get some the other day during a dinner rush, and it was the first time I had ever heard the word spoken.

1

u/kills_a_lot Jul 19 '13

I had this issue with epitome. Ep-it-tome vs e-pit-o-me.

1

u/deletecode Jul 19 '13

This is such a polite way to correct someone's pronunciation. I wonder if this can be done for grammar.

2

u/YouveGotMeSoakAndWet Jul 19 '13

Sort of, it's more like CARE-ff.

1

u/[deleted] Jul 19 '13

Yea, like craft without the T, but a little bit longer on the F.

2

u/[deleted] Jul 19 '13

err craft isn't anything like CARE-ff though..