Awkward reading moment

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do you ever get those awkward moments when you look at a common word and it looks like you spelled it wrong, when you didn’t spell it wrong…? :confused:

that just happened to me, when I saw the word “first.” :confounded:

I think it was the typing font that drew me off. :disappointed_relieved:

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That happens to me all the time with becoming. I feel like it should have two Ms.

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it was worse for me, this time. I looked at the word “first” and I thought it was 5 random letters, mushed together… :disappointed_relieved:

I’m losing it. :disappointed:

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Does it also happen to you with speaking? I always feel like the word gift should sound differently than it does, and I stumble over it.

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I think all this madness happened because I forgot to eat. :confounded:

I was busy and forgot. :disappointed_relieved:

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I think I do that sometimes I just can’t remember when I do because I don’t pay much attention. Oh wait no raspberry and February. The p in raspberry and the extra r in February. I had like a ten minute talk today about how that p should not be in their because we do not pronounce the p. I also talked about how English is broken.

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be careful when you go to super super graduate school. such liberal intellectual thinking and classroom takeovers are… not much favored there… :disappointed_relieved:

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Half of the English words are intentionally misspelled because the higher class English people wanted to appear more fancy. The whole letter Q used to just be CW until William of Normandy decided he wanted to be like the French.

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I just read the thread “Anyone hear from @HuckFinn?” as “Anyone here from @HuckFinn?”

my gosh! :disappointed:

I’m eating now though. so that should be the last of it! :smiley:

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