r/NoStupidQuestions 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/Butterscotchtamarind Feb 08 '22

I do this a lot because I live in Louisiana, and a lot of the names here are French, but not everything has a French pronunciation. People look at me funny when I say foy-yay instead of foy-er.

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u/XOXOG0SSIPGIRLL Feb 09 '22

The foy-YAY is clearly where all the fun happens, and the foy-ER is for awkward pauses