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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same amount(s) as one of the actual plastic baking measuring cups that go inside each other like Russian dolls lol

I thought they were different somehow (something something imperial metric yadda yadda yaddda)

Your turn to come clean Lemmings!

**EDIT: to clarify, I mean volumetrically for measuring liquids

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[-] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago

I thought Edinburgh was two different places because of pronunciation.

I always read it as pronounced like -berg, but there was this other, similar town pronounced -bruh or -boro that people talked about.

Just one of those place names that didn’t come up often at all, so I never compared them in my head and wondered if “hey, these might be the same place…” It came up and bit me in conversation far too recently where my misunderstanding was worth a laugh among friends.

That, and I thought we’d elect basically decent (as far as politicians go) people to the presidency that would at least honor tradition and the institution. Boy, was I wrong about that.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

I think everyone should get a pass on pronouncing the names of British places. All pronunciations are equally correct. Don't like it? Don't name a place "Michaeleaulourhoroughsbleachhhiffynboroughshire"

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