Where does the misspelling "Mastadon" come from?
Where does the misspelling "Mastadon" come from?
I see it everywhere, reddit comments, lemmy, news articles and mastodon itself. How did this misspelling become so common?
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Just from the way it's pronounced in English: ma · stuh · daan. It sounds more like an 'a' than an 'o'.
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in british english we pronounce it as mahs • tuh • don
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I always said ma stow don.
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I pronounce it mas · to · don. Maybe the miss-spelled name for it is based on how people pronounce it verbarly.
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