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    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzOP
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      2 months ago

      One of my favorite mispronounciations comes from the joke how there’s 5 words in the English language with “meow” in them:

      meow
      meows
      meowing
      meowed
      homeowner

      I’m a happy ho-meow-ner

      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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        I checked the list of 370k english words I downloaded from github a while ago and yeah, its true other than the variants of homeowner (homeowners, homeownership)

        I was looking at some other random words, heres some I found:

        • self: weaselfish, damselfish
        • eye: greyer, honeyed, journeyed, etc
        • bear: beard

        this got me interested so I wrote a program to find each time a small word bridges the gap between two larger words in a compound word, honestly the funnier part of its outputs is the weird ‘compound words’ its finding, like “asp: aspirating: as, pirating” or “at: deepseated: deepsea, ted” (ted, apparently, meaning ‘to scatter hay for drying’). Occasionally it finds good ones, like “ices: apprenticeship: apprentice, ship” or “hen: archenemy: arch, enemy”, and it did find the meow one. It does allow the small word to contain the first word in a compound word, because that can still give some interesting ones like “warp: warplanes: war, planes”. It probably would have been a lot better if I had actually used a list of compound words, it tries to find its own very slowly which does allow it to find any possible combination for any word

        anyways, here’s the list