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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social

Wait. Are you telling me that this is just a Geoff/Jeff thing?

aug 31, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0

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Potato of defiance @drlatigo.bsky.social

I went YEARS thinking “goal-er” or “geller”

aug 31, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social

Until just now, I still thought that it was pronounced differently than jailor. At some point in time, I "learned" that it wasn't a hard g, but that the first vowel was a schwa. So gel instead of jail. Whoops.

aug 31, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Potato of defiance @drlatigo.bsky.social

It’s a doozy-

Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more jail·er /ˈjālər/ noun noun: gaoler a person in charge of a jail or of the prisoners in it.
aug 31, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Potato of defiance @drlatigo.bsky.social

Apparently?

aug 31, 2025, 8:21 pm • 1 0 • view