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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Just based on how often I notice someone mispronounce a word without realizing it (or have done so myself and realized it later). Statistically I'm probably still doing it with some word.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Not exactly related to the question, but as a non-native English speaker, whenever I read something related to weights in imperial, e.g., 150 lbs, my mind reads it as 150 lubes.

I know it's pounds, if I would read it out loud, I would say pounds cause I'm not a weirdo (well...). But still, my internal monologue has lbs = lubes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

If anyone is wondering why this is abbreviation for it, it is because the full name for pound weight in latin is libra poundo. We use the libra part for the abbrievation into lbs but pounds for the actual common name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I was the same except I said it as "ibs" was quite a while I was thinking that when I was younger. My internal monologue still says it this way anytime I read it even though I know now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Right? I’m a native English speaker (Aussie, so…loosely native English speaker) and my first exposure to “Lbs” was for the weight of Pokemon in the physical red Pokédex handbook, so I always just said they weighed “X labs”, still don’t immediately correct it in my head 25+ years later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

For me its always been "limbs"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I love your brain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I love your brain

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel you. My inner voice reads this as "libs".