I say “bum” and my wife says “boob”

Interested to hear what you think.

  • BougieBirdieOP
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    1 month ago

    This is kind of blowing my mind that a word that long is only one syllable

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        1 month ago

        Or the alternate spelling in our house so we don’t send the dog through the window: werl sounds like whirl

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        Funny, I drawl it into one syllable, but I read it as two. Didn’t understand how it fit the rule.