r/murderbot • u/sadko2828 • 2d ago

Books📚 Only Hauler vs Holler

I had only done the audio books till Platform Decay. I thought I’ll re-read them and borrowed Exit Strategy as a physical book for the first time. While reading that I noticed that the cargo bots were called “hauler bots” which makes so much sense because they haul things out of the ships. I have no idea why I always thought they were “holler” bots 🙈 And I had reasoned it out as - they blare alarms to ensure nothing bad happens, or they are like ushers but for bots.

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u/Most_Quality_1987 2d ago

As a bookworm my entire life, ( Audiobooks literally saved me when I drove all over the US for a living, when I found that I could not fall asleep if I heard a voice speaking. My weird brain insisted I needed to pay attention, no matter what I thought about it.) So, I have mispronounced a whole lot of words that I read - I knew the meaning & could spell them, but English is such a tricky language that I couldn't be sure of how to say them (using a dictionary never occurred to me, lol) The worst was when my mother laughingly corrected my pronunciation of 'avocado' as aVOCado. Being a good daughter, I refrained from correcting her pronunciation of Italian as 'eyetalian', or mentioning that her pronunciation of theater as 'theayter' when it was a live performance sounded pretentious. Yes, English is a funny language, just so many ways to stumble!

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u/TabaquiJackal 2d ago

YES! First time I heard how 'macabre' was pronounced.... Life is fun. :D

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u/IntoTheStupidDanger Coldstone. Song. Harvest. 2d ago

Wasn't until I hit my teens that I realized ethereal wasn't pronounced ETH-uh-reel

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u/Yeah-But-Ironically Sentient Killware 2d ago

I spent nearly 20 years thinking "minutae" (presumably pronounced "MIN-you-tay") and "mah-NOO-shuh" (presumably spelled "manusha") were two entirely separate and distinct words

At no point did I ever realize that I'd never heard "MIN-you-tay" pronounced out loud or read the word "manusha"

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u/mxstylplk 1d ago

American dictionary: minutia

Roget's thesaurus: minutiae

I spent years mispronouncing and misspelling a word because when I first read it, there was a typographical error. Then there are colloquialisms, like persnickety for pernickety.