Mischievious is actually a common misspelling
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Zess@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s bad when people mispronounce mischievous but this dude actually spelled it the way people mispronounce it lmao
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 months ago
00L10@feddit.org 2 months ago
At this point I realize I’ve most likely ever only come across the mispronounced version…
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Isn’t the dictionary out of date then?
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sure is. Someone should tell Meriam.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
If they don’t listen, time to escalate to Webster.
oce@jlai.lu 2 months ago
The British seem very happy with keeping the “-tre” ending but pronouncing it “-ter” for centuries.
Zess@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not surprising, I think they even mispronounced it in an episode of Futurama. Just a shame because the proper way sounds so much better.