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robbed
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I always pronounced it poe-ster-ous and not pah-ster-ous. oops
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puredemo
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Of course, It's completely counter-intuitive to pronounce it pah-ster-ous. Especially for an email to
post
blogging platform.
msg
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Your way makes more sense. You use it to post things and it isn't preposterous.
They need to fix the pronunciation.
uuilly
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I've always read it pah-steer-eee-us. I know that's wrong but the word has always looked like posterior to me. Fun service though.
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