am i the only one who gets really annoyed when people persistently call it "mastadon" instead of "mastodon"

@Felthry we've been practicing being chill with variant spellings because a friend of ours gets super uncomfortable with reflexive spelling and grammar corrections?

but we see where you're coming from

"mastadon" is ... phonetic but jarringly nonstandard

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@packbat it just tends to really bug us when something is spelled wrong, and for some reason this one worse than most

@packbat I wouldn't consider it phonetic either, but perhaps in some dialects

@Felthry *records zirself on zir phone experimentally*

The vowel we use seems to be plausibly spelled with an "a" there, so yeah - I guess our dialect is one that pronounces it that way?

@Felthry *nods*

yeah, that's valid

part of why we try to spell things properly is because we know /we/ were really sensitized to unexpected variations, and "mastadon" doesn't strike us as an entertaining variant

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