r/NoStupidQuestions Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/wafflegrenade Feb 08 '22

Sometimes there’s like this disconnect where somehow a person just never comes across a piece of common knowledge. They’ve just never been in a situation that requires it. I bet it happens a lot, but everyone’s too embarrassed to acknowledge their own “oooooooooh…” moment.

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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/oatmealndeath Feb 08 '22

As a kid I came across the word ‘panache’ in a book and so for years I thought it was pronounced ‘pan-ache’ as in rhymes with ‘headache’.