This has become a pet peeve of mine and as a non-native English speaker I just don’t understand why so many people make that typo in the first place- what is it?
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mastodon is latin
Yes, words have etymology, but it doesn’t really change anything and doesn’t make latin, french, whatever-origin loanwords not be english or whatever the language is they’re loaned to. You can’t say “…well ackshually guillotine isn’t english, it’s french”.
PS. It was a dumb joke.
calm down boy
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Because that’s how most people pronounce it, and it’s an uncommon word so most are guessing on the spelling anyway
Ah, sounds fair - the O is very much pronounced O in French and I didn’t realise how similar to A it would be in English. Thanks!
So English is weird; any non-stressed syllable in a word has the exact same vowel sound: the schwa
It’s basically a very neutral vowel sound because we are lazy speakers.
English speakers, especially Americans, don’t put much value in spelling, especially on the internet. Can’t be arsed to Google it, or even look at the logo on the page they’re on. Just wing it because it sounds right and they’ve never actually read it.
Then they do read it and continue to get it wrong anyway, because fuck you that’s why, I guess?
People think it’s spelled Mastadon, because they pronounce it Mastadon. No one googles what they think they already know.
We may be pretty fucking dumb, but I don’t think disregard for spelling things correctly on the internet is a strictly American quality lol
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Native English speaker here. Although I pronounce it Mast-a-don, I spell it Mastodon because that’s how it’s spelled and I know how to read and write. Also, I’ve never seen it spelled like that. English speaking or otherwise.
It’s to subconsciously avoid the closeness to Mast O’Don
