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Comment by bee_rider

5 hours ago

I don’t know if “antidotal example” is a pun or a typo but I quite like it.

That is fun.

Not sure if it's an American pronunciation thing, but I had to stare at that long and hard to see the problem and even after seeing it couldn't think of how you could possibly spell the correct word otherwise.

  • > Not sure if it's an American pronunciation thing

    It's a bad American pronunciation thing like "Febuwary" and "nuculer".

    If you pronounce the syllables correctly, "an-ec-dote", "Feb-ru-ar-y", "nu-cle-ar" the spellings follow.

    English has it's fair share of spelling stupidities, but if people don't even pronounce the words correctly there is no hope.