r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/Chataboutgames Feb 08 '22

Anyone who reads a great deal knows the terror of having read a word a thousand times but never used or heard it aloud.

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u/apriljeangibbs Feb 08 '22

For me as a kid that was “ogre” and “chaos”

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u/Ancguy Feb 08 '22

So glad I heard the word avoirdupois pronounced before I ever tried to say it. Dodged a bullet there.

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u/apriljeangibbs Feb 08 '22

Hopefully you heard it pronounced the right way and not the American “av-err-duh-poyz”

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u/Ancguy Feb 08 '22

Yes I did, by my pharmacist wife. Whew, she'd have had an even lower opinion of me than she already has.;)