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Why do so many people write Mastadon instead of Mastodon? (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because that’s how most people pronounce it, and it’s an uncommon word so most are guessing on the spelling anyway

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.