sanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoNo one spells "lose" anymoreimagemessage-square111linkfedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1188arrow-down1imageNo one spells "lose" anymoresanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square111linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarethermal_shock@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 days agoYup. My kiddo reads A LOT, and his lexicon is wild. He mispronounces things since he’s only ever seen it in writing, so we have fun with that.
minus-squarejtrek@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 days agoI (a man in his 40s) pronounced Lathe wrong the other day in a meeting when referencing the le Guin story “the lathe of heaven”. Someone privately messaged me after to say “great book. BTW, it’s pronounced…”
Yup. My kiddo reads A LOT, and his lexicon is wild. He mispronounces things since he’s only ever seen it in writing, so we have fun with that.
I (a man in his 40s) pronounced Lathe wrong the other day in a meeting when referencing the le Guin story “the lathe of heaven”. Someone privately messaged me after to say “great book. BTW, it’s pronounced…”