irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Mastodon@lemmy.mlEnglish · 26 days agoWhere does the misspelling "Mastadon" come from?message-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareWhere does the misspelling "Mastadon" come from?irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Mastodon@lemmy.mlEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square7fedilinkfile-text
I see it everywhere, reddit comments, lemmy, news articles and mastodon itself. How did this misspelling become so common?
minus-squareJustinAlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agothe first o is pronounced as a schwa in English, which makes the spelling of that vowel ambiguous. https://youtu.be/qu4zyRqILYM
the first o is pronounced as a schwa in English, which makes the spelling of that vowel ambiguous.
https://youtu.be/qu4zyRqILYM