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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.
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.
The pronunciation is easy, but seemingly completely disconnected from the spelling.
Wooster Shur.