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 most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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I was like 25 when I found out it was wheelbarrow and not wheelbarrel
Worcestershire.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiasis.
I must be pronouncing them right enough for voice to text to understand me because I certainly cannot spell those.
Kibosh
We've probably all said a sentence that no other person in history has ever said.
Welcome to the world of Irish names!
We got:
And many more!
Hope do you pronounce Siobhan?
Shuh-vawn
My American accent pronounces it "Shove-on".
There’s meant to be a fada over the a (á), so it’s definitely meant to be a longer vowel sound.
Take the name Sean for example. Spelled like that it’s actually pronounced shan, and means old. The name that we all pronounce as Shawn is actually spelled Seán
I made the mistake of pronouncing epitome as "ep-i-tome" for a while.
Thing is, language is constantly changing, so if enough people say it wrong, it makes it correct over time.
As an example, people have been using nauseous incorrectly for so long, that it's now correct again.
A "niche" is not a "nitch"
Fun fact i lost a regional spelling bee because of those exact words. I should have asked for usage example but I was like 11 and terrified
You're a bit too late for trying to complain about that one.
The latter has been the dominant American pronunciation of the word for so long that it now appears as the primary pronunciation guide in American dictionaries.
I hope cache isn't pronounced like cachet (rhymes with sashay) rather than cash.
I don't think I've ever seen Aloysius written.
What's the grammatical rule for using 4 l's in a row? Ma gawd what a mess
Perfectly cromulent in Welsh.
You could record the times when you find out a new word that you've been pronouncing wrong. You should notice less and less new mispronounced words as your list of known mispronounced words gets longer and longer. If you graph the data out, you can extrapolate the curve out to infinity, and you can estimate how many total words you're mispronouncing.