Microblog Memes

You can tell someone grew up a rube because they say things like "You can tell someone grew up reading"

One of my best instances of this was when I pronounced “ricochet” as “rich-oh-chett” (rhymes with Boba Fett) as a kid. Never gonna live that one down.

I was really embarrassed the first time I watched Harry Potter.

Shillelagh embodies this for me. None of my guesses were even close.

I always enjoyed reading about Yosemight National Park

You can tell someone grew up reading amongst troglodytes this way.

No one only family read, I was forty years of age having a very Oscar from The Office discussion about ISIS and mispronounced “apostasy”. I still lie awake cringing over that sometimes.

Mine was facade. I read it as fuh-cade and thought phissod was people putting up a false front.

Idempotent

It still never sounds right to me.

I feel personally attacked.

I think this is more attributed to how the people around you spoke rather than strictly reading.

My college roommate and I both grew up reading. My family also read books and one parent was college educated. Her family only read the local paper (6th grade reading level). She was the only reader in her family.

So we both grew up reading, but I could pronounce words she couldn't simply because the people around me also knew and used them.