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The sad thing is I'm not even sure this is a joke

Reminds me of everybody saying "mastadon". Let's just agree, Americans can't spell :P

I've never been able to make sense of why people are having such a hard time spelling Fuchsia correctly[0] but this still made chuckle. :)

[0]: Just think of a popular four-letter word starting with "fuc". Replace the last letter with an "h". (The "ch" in German "Fuchsia" is pronounced exactly how that four-letter word ends.) Then append "-sia".

Needing a paragraph to describe a mnemonic for remembering how to spell the word is why.

In the context of Google projects, I propose fucks-ya. As in, will screw you over.

I can never remember how to spell or pronounce this word.

It clicked for me when I learned that the plant the colour is named after was itself named after a Dr. Fuchs. So now I remember the name, and tack "-ia" on the end. In German, Fuchs sounds something like "fooks", so it's "fooks-ee-ah".

That is general problem with English's language vowel shift.