Hacker News Reader

Heisenberg's Law of English: you can pronounce words like this correctly or you can spell them correctly, but not both from the same person.

I don’t like the correct people when they say Wed-ness-day though. I wish I lived in a world where the pronunciation made sense like that.

Think "weddinsday," and it might make more sense. I hear that mostly from British-English speakers though.

Even more so because Wodan / Woden and Odin are different names for the same god who is also the namesake for that day..

Weddin just lies on the spectrum between Wodan and Odin.

I'm a native English speaker in the US and I've been spelling turmeric incorrectly for decades.

When I noticed that first 'r' I questioned everything I thought I knew about the universe...

I spent the first 50+ years of life under the misapprehension that there is a singer/actress called Barbara StreisLand