The good news is that nowadays people are fairly illiterate and they probably couldn't say for certain that you're pronouncing it incorrectly.
Think it was George Carlin, but the old "Think of the most average person you know, and remember that half of everyone is dumber than them" shtick is just getting more depressing the older I get.
That, and the ignorance of history. Sheesh... The Gulag Archipelago shouldn't be the footnote in history it is.
When I think of George Carlin, and it's often, is when someone says "Two minutes!"
This is the light-hearted one I keep coming back to.
The ignorance of history is my biggest life's circle jerk. I often say, "Geologically speaking, if it happens once, it'll happen again." but I am 100% flanked irl by NPCs and nobody listens. My dad only watched five things on tv when I was growing up - golf, bowling, Star Trek, the Watergate hearings, and World at War. It felt like he mostly watched World at War. I think I would go watch all of those again as an adult, and I wonder if that was the real history or elaborate propaganda written by the victors.
We had similar fathers, mine is also an avid student of the civil war battles, and the battle of Midway in particular.
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