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PHENOMENON: When you read more than you speak,...

“PHENOMENON: When you read more than you speak, often you don’t pronounce the words properly in your mind when you read. So what you end up with is a new 2 second lag before you figure out how to say certain non phonetic words you lazily read incorrectly all of the time.

— Kelly Oxford (Yes.)

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    THIS explains a lot.

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    “awry” as “aww-ree.” I will never not do this.

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    “monastery.” Muh-NASS-ter-ee.

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    Kelly Oxford, revealing herself even...explicitly as a True Blue Canadian. (And

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    time, especially with names...places. I thought Marcel Proust sounded like PrOWst (instead...

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