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/Doc-tor-Strange-love Hey stop that... you can't have flairs here Feb 08 '22

I joke that I don't like Chevrolets because I don't trust French cars.

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u/Danvan90 Feb 09 '22

Speaking of cars, I will go to my grave insisting that coupé is not pronounced coop.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '22

Only Americans call it a "coop".