• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in like 3rd or 4th grade (my mom loved them and wanted to share). There’s one line describing a “triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six” which was, at the tender age of ten or so, the first time I’d encountered the word “whore”. I pronounced it phonetically with the leading “w” for years before someone corrected me. Not that it came up often, being the kind of ten-year-old who reads stuff like that. But still.

    Every now and then I still read it that way in my head and chuckle.