Things you were shockingly old when you learned

look, it’s the first prime p for which unique factorization of cyclotomic integers based on the p the root of unity breaks down

Och, tell us something we don't know.

the OG:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

milieu is a word you can definitely use too often (at all is probably too often)

idk dude within my own milieu it’s pretty common to say milieu tho i guess other milieux cld be less milieu-tolerant

Adrian Belew was a good old southern boy from Kentucky.

was in my 30s or perhaps even 40s when i figgered that the word "epitome" (said like it looked when i read it) is the same word as "epitome" (said like it's actually said)

don't think i ever said it out loud the wrong way, just sort of thought they were 2 difft words

I was the same with "segue".

I hear "seeg" enough in the wild that I thought it was an accepted alternative pronunciation, but after looking at a couple of dictionaries, nope. Give it ten years though.

I heard on a program about soil earlier that in Ancient Egypt there was the death penalty for anyone caught removing a worm from the soil. They didn't mention if it applied to children as well.

isn't sand what happens if soil has no worms? *waves at the natural sciences as they pass me by at a tremendous distance*

anyway you can see why they'd be worried

also where were they putting the worms they'd removed?

Soil is sacred to many cultures but I suppose it will be much more sacred in countries that are 90% + desert.

maybe there was a thriving black-market for wirrums, they wouldn't have the death penalty if people weren't stealing them

and one common occurrence during famines and droughts is people will eat anything before they get to the cannibalism stage and those pharaohs weren't generous with the flax rations.

too right, fuckin flaxitarians

amusingly enough too much water is also very bad for earthworms -- it's like dune out there ppl

don't google this using just the word "worms" btw, the world is full of worms you dont want to know abt

brain control worms that turn you into their helpless puppet slave?

I was the same with "segue".

Mine was "hyperbole". Was well into my thirties when I finally realized the spoken and written words were one and the same

I thought it was a single syllable for a while but that just sounds like it should go with the word Heil dunnit. As commonly said by stereotypical National Socialists

I was 30 before I realized why I got eyebrow raises when I said "banal"

xps Oh yeah, "hyperbole" is another one it took me a long time to figure out.

Lol and that's how i heard "banal" in my mind before ever actually hearing it said.

He pronounced the word 'banal'
While I pronounced it 'banal'
I said it rhymes not with 'canal'
But properly with 'anal'

(from some old New York Magazine competition 30 or more years ago)

yeah had the exact same with "segue" too

segue heil

For some reason it was a word often used by radio one djs in the 80s so I was shockingly young when I learned.

the correct pronunciation annoys me because seeeeg sounds like a smooth transition whereas segway trips itself up in the middle of the word.

TIL Godspeed You! Black Emperor took their name from a Japanese biker documentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Speed_You!_Black_Emperor

And it's playing on catodetv.com right now.

the correct pronunciation annoys me because seeeeg sounds like a smooth transition whereas segway trips itself up in the middle of the word.

basic humour alert (i like it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69ny57pR0

for a while i thought "segway" was just a comedy way of "seeg" and i would always laugh when i heard people say it

I mispronounce words like this all the time; my reading vocabulary is way ahead of my speaking. The funniest instance was in middle school when I excitedly told my friends about this thing I read about when three people have sex together called a menaj a tree-o.

the OG:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. [...]

Ah, but double the psalm number to 46 in the King James Bible, and things get intriguing. Why multiply by two? Well, there are two references here:

– The 46th word from the start (disregarding the parenthesised opening dedication) is "shake".
– The 46th word from the end (disregarding the standard formula "Selah") is "spear".

Clearly, Shakespeare was a 23er and translated this one for old Jim.

segue came into ordinary english from music jargon: it may look kinda french but like a lot of musical instructions it's italian, hence the pronunciation

in music it means "follow on without pause or break" (which i guess DJs picked up from band-leaders, who knows) (it's not like they're fluently dropping furioso ma non troppo hither and thither, but it is a good term for good pauseless DJing so there you go)

Instructions for DJs at my college radio station, circa 1989, spelled it "segueway," in a doomed attempt to have it both ways.

in my brain that's how it was spelled, instinctively

do any latin based words ending in "gue" share that pronuanciation? Cannot think of any

brb checking my catalogway of words now

Merengue, the dance (not meringue, the food)

lol @ Hunt3r

AHH YES! xp

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-gue

233 words, but only true heads will know how many are derived from latin

Portsea Island is the third most populous island in the "British Isles" after Great Britain and Ireland.

... population 207,100 (I didn't even know it existed!)

Try Guys

xp I mean it's most of Portsmouth, and it's only an island on a technicality.

Still a good pub quiz question.