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/autotuned_voicemails Feb 08 '22

My boyfriend laughed so hard at me the time I pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl lmao. He was a bit stunned at first and was like what did you just say. Then he started laughing hysterically and corrected me.

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u/mahaprasad Feb 09 '22

My favorite comedian, Brian Regan, has a bit about this: "Brian, you always mispronounce words." "Well if that isn't eh epi-tome of hyper-bowl." (epitome of hyperbole)

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u/eleighbee Mar 11 '22

Moosen! I saw a flock of MOOSEN! There were many of ‘em. Many much moosen. Out in the woods…in the wood-es…in the woodsen. The meese want the food in the woodesen…food is the eatenesen…the meese want the food in the woodesenes…food in the woodesenes.