I thought the "purple" skittles were supposed to be brown (I still think they look brown). One day I looked on the package. The rest is history.
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only ever read the word cyan and eventually learned I'd been pronouncing it wrong my whole life when i said it out loud in conversation
Same problem here, but with "Yosemite". As a scandinavian I have no basis for hearing it spoken, so in my head I pronounced it as if it was a very street way of greeting Jewish people.
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For years I thought Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and Mickey Rourke (1952-present) were the same guy. I'd see Mickey Rooney in a movie and be like "Wow, he's looking pretty good for his age," thinking he was a man 32 years his senior and/or dead.
I finally twigged when I eventually saw Iron Man 2 (2009) and was like "How is he doing this?!" and actually looked him up.
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That Tom Brady was a product of a winning system and would be average at best if he played with another organization. What made me realize I was wrong? Fuckin ring number 7 and our (the Bills) absolute owning of New England ever since he left.
The pronunciation for the name "Byrne". I was pronouncing it like "by-ernie" as if I were excitedly saying "bye, Ernie! 😃"
Then I found out it's pronounced like "burn"! 😂
The monte carlo paradox - my brain really refused to grok it for a long time.
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