I’d heard people say “segway” and I knew what it meant, so I suppose I non-occurently knew two similar words for the same phenomenon.
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Hebrew has no present tense of ‘to be’. I spent the better part of a year believing it had no past tense of ‘to be’ either, while using its past tense consistently.
aug 31, 2025, 12:47 am • 3 0 • view
I didn’t figure it out until the novelty transportation device came out. Nobody says that word regularly, you just read it!
aug 31, 2025, 12:43 am • 2 0 • view
And yet one of my friends in grad school used it in conversation, and I was stunned.
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 2 0 • view
I would have been so confused!
aug 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 2 0 • view
Yes! Didn't realize this was common. I knew "segway" from spoken language but thought the written segue was "seeg".
aug 31, 2025, 12:49 am • 3 0 • view
I thought archie-pel-AW-go (my pronunciation of the word meaning island chain) and (Gulag) arka-PEL-ago were two different words until college. Still mispronounce many words and names because I don’t usually watch or listen to the news.
aug 31, 2025, 1:10 am • 5 0 • view