Jul 24, 2017, 7:09 AM

@WTFE said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

When you hit a new word reading, you need to check it in a dictionary before speaking it.

You don't want to know how many years I was saying "epitome" wrong before someone corrected me.

Or "risible" for that matter.

You know the singer Adele? Having ducked out of a lot of modern culture, and having never heard this name ever in my life, I spent a good year and a half calling her "Ah-dah-lay".

Which, coming to think about it, is far prettier and more interesting than "Ah-dell", but oh-well.