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by avalore 2217 days ago
Fun fact, I only recently discovered that "renumeration" is an incorrect spelling used by many. It is actually "remuneration". I'd been spelling this incorrectly for decades
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The same for "nucular" instead of "nuclear". The first time I heard "nucular" was G.W. Bush on TV. I thought he was an idiot because a president of a nuclear power ought to know how to pronounce a word that important. I found it more odd that many people pronounced it that way and thought they were either mocking G.W. Bush, or emulating him. I was young and intolerant and thought they were idiots, too. When I had heard it one time too many, I figured there can't be that many idiots and looked up "nucular". I found out that "nucular" has forced itself into the dictionary precisely because too many people pronounced it that way and I was livid.

I eventually toned down my zeal because languages and people are dynamic and ever evolving and reflecting on Montaigne's Essais, written in late 1500s French, lead me to more understanding.

PS: I still consider that using "nucular" is insane.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucular