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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
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Worcestershire.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiasis.
I must be pronouncing them right enough for voice to text to understand me because I certainly cannot spell those.
Except voice-to-text spelled “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” wrong. It did “iasis” instead of “iosis.”
You can't pronounce worcestershire right. Nobody knows how it should be pronounced.
The pronunciation is easy, but seemingly completely disconnected from the spelling.
Wooster Shur.
We just say "pass the what's-it-here sauce"
It's wash your sister sauce
/s
More sense than any other pronounciation I've heard really.