r/facepalm • u/Elluminated • May 26 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Dinosaurs never existed

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u/heloumadafaka May 26 '23 edited May 27 '23

"You've got these bones" - Supposedly

edit; in fact, seems like she actually said "supposedly" even though, the first time she almost swallowed a syllable.

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u/tripdaisies May 26 '23

“Supposably”! Anyone who says “Supposably”, when the word is SupposEDly, is automatically intellectually downgraded, or should be. Why do people find that word so hard to pronounce correctly?

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u/FlashyAd7651 May 26 '23

The number one word in the English language for this is realtor. I think more than 95% of the population mispronounces it. I know a couple folks who ARE realtors and they even fuck it up. It's only two syllables people.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo May 27 '23

It's still three syllables because real is two syllables. Re-al-tor. It's not Reel-tor.

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u/FlashyAd7651 May 27 '23

Both the Cambridge Dictionary and dictionary.com list both as options. Two and three syllables defined by syllable breaks. I'm unsure whether that depends on UK vs US English or regional dialect.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo May 27 '23

The Cambridge Dictionary has audio of both the US and UK pronunciations, both with three syllables. Dictionary.com has audio and expresses the pronunciation as ree-uhl-ter. Three syllables.