Note: I like discussing words, so please refrain from posting sarcastic or obstinate comments about language evolving, as it's just light-hearted discussion, not a debate or a rant. Thank you.
If a word isn't too familiar with me and it's not a word many people use every day, but it sounds like another more common word, I sometimes hate the word.
For example, foosball. I always misread it at football, and foosball seems more of an effort to say than football.
Also Tabasco. I can't stand that word because it sounds like you're saying tobacco but with adding an S into it. Why does it have to sound so much like tobacco?
I also can't stand the word orifice because it sounds like office, and if said quickly it can be misheard as office.
And generic and genetic (reading only). Sometimes I have to read these words very carefully as not to get the two confused by missing the R or the T. There was another example of two words like that but I can't think of it right now. I'll come back when I think of it.
Anyway, does this sometimes stress anyone else out a little bit?
If a word isn't too familiar with me and it's not a word many people use every day, but it sounds like another more common word, I sometimes hate the word.
For example, foosball. I always misread it at football, and foosball seems more of an effort to say than football.
Also Tabasco. I can't stand that word because it sounds like you're saying tobacco but with adding an S into it. Why does it have to sound so much like tobacco?
I also can't stand the word orifice because it sounds like office, and if said quickly it can be misheard as office.
And generic and genetic (reading only). Sometimes I have to read these words very carefully as not to get the two confused by missing the R or the T. There was another example of two words like that but I can't think of it right now. I'll come back when I think of it.
Anyway, does this sometimes stress anyone else out a little bit?
