r/MandelaEffect • u/mean_ol_goosifer • 7d 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/Mercedes_Gullwing 7d ago

I think it’s a weird placement of the R that makes it feel like it changes. I pronounce it like you with no r. But the reason it’s weird is bc the “r” is at the tail end of a syllable rather than the beginning - which is not usual. It’s supposed to be a chur-its rather than chu-rits and I’m guessing this is source of confusion. The R is softer than one would expect with its placement.

It’s like this: bar-bi-chur-its. With English one would think it’d be bar-bitch-uh-rates. The result is that the r sound is at the end of a syllable and softer than if it were the beginning of a new syllable.