If you have a child, please convince them they're called "handburgers" and see how long it takes them to figure it out.

Because if someone says "handburger" you'd likely just assume they said "hamburger," and vice versa, they would just think everyone else is saying "handburger" a bit weirdly, and the term makes sense.

I think it would take them quite a while.

@kurt The second they learn to read, the jig surely is up.

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@Alexis @kurt not necessarily, my older sibling after learning to read presumed chaos was pronounced as one syllable (“chows” basically) and still spent quite some time convinced that the work “kay-oss” they kept hearing was an unrelated synonym

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