irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Mastodon@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agoWhere does the misspelling "Mastadon" come from?message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareWhere does the misspelling "Mastadon" come from?irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to Mastodon@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
I see it everywhere, reddit comments, lemmy, news articles and mastodon itself. How did this misspelling become so common?
minus-squareBaron Von J@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·4 days agoJust from the way it’s pronounced in English: ma · stuh · daan. It sounds more like an ‘a’ than an ‘o’.
minus-squareirelephant 🍭@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·4 days agoI always said ma stow don.
minus-squareairikr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoI pronounce it mas · to · don. Maybe the miss-spelled name for it is based on how people pronounce it verbarly.
Just from the way it’s pronounced in English: ma · stuh · daan. It sounds more like an ‘a’ than an ‘o’.
I always said ma stow don.
I pronounce it mas · to · don. Maybe the miss-spelled name for it is based on how people pronounce it verbarly.