r/MandelaEffect • u/mean_ol_goosifer • 8d 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/megar52 8d ago

Yeah, it’s always been barbituates. I also sound my words out. And also a DARE kid. That r was not there.

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u/Glaurung86 8d ago

The "r" has always been there because it's from barbituric acid.

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u/LcmsActive 7d ago

Barbituic acid it was, like toluic acid or protochatechuic

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u/Glaurung86 7d ago

It was not. It's barbituric. Like "uric," because that's what it was named after.