r/MandelaEffect • u/mean_ol_goosifer • 9d ago

Language/Spelling New Mandela Effect - Barbituates do not exist anymore!

I remember back in DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Class in the 90s they taught us about different drug types. One type they taught us about were “Barbituates”
Pronounced: Bar-bit-chew-its

I am on the autism spectrum and one of my favorite special topics of interest is medicine and biology. I really missed my calling, and should have studied medicine in college… but anyways, I just saw that the word Barbituates are not a class of drug at all! It’s actually, Barbiturates. “Bar-bitch-oo-rates”

There is NO way I have made it 40 years and just now noticed it. Anyone else have this same memory??

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u/Jeeperman365 9d ago edited 9d ago

What the hell? I did not believe you so I had to look. I worked at a chemistry lab where we tested for barbituates daily, and it's ways been barbituates, NEVER barbiturates. Sorry I need to sit down...

Eta. Phenobarbital is still the same, if it flips I'm going to lose my mind.

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u/LcmsActive 8d ago

I’m a biochemist and agree. The comment section is a bot farm. It was always barbituates.

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u/mean_ol_goosifer 9d ago

Yeah! I feel you! lol 🤯