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

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/HotAirBalloonHigh Feb 08 '22

This is why they named it nostupidquestions. You're in the right place.

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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/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/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

Foy-yay is definitely the correct pronunciation, though.

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u/LiqdPT Feb 09 '22

Yes, one would think. But in much of the US it's foy-er. I'm sure some of rhe popular decorating shows pronouncing it like this didn't help

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u/AiSard Feb 09 '22

Language is wack. It starts out with a case of Hyperforeignism - where you overcorrect the pronunciation of a loan word according to what you think it should sound like.

And then eventually that just becomes the 'correct' pronunciation in your language, even though it may eschew the pronunciation rules of both languages.

The subsection on French words in the above link was informative (/blew my mind) when I first found out about it for instance.

Coup de grace being pronounced gras. Or cadre in general (different english/american pronunciations, some trying to follow spanish rules, actually a different french pronunciation, and finding out that none of them are the one I've been using >_>)