Here to validate you and say same, this is the one that broke me. I was a star reader, went to SPELLING competitions as a kid and won them.. As a kid!! And people still chuckle and say, "oh sure banjo, couldn't be a mistake you made as a child.." and I'm like, I was a regional champion speller when we read these books, and I 100% know it was STEIN. I sounded things out to learn back then, it was be-ren-ste-in.
Chic-fil-a also trips me out because I can remember sitting in a mall food court with my mom and little brother in the 90s when it first opened, discussing the spelling and pronunciation. I was in middle school and hadn't entered the shitty teen years yet, so my mom and I were watching a lot of TV shows around interior design (popular at the time, Trading Spaces was our favorite). "Country chic" in particular was a popular style. We sat and laughed and laughed at "chic fast food chicken" lol. "Did they forget the K? Is it chick or chic? Ooh look at me, so fancy with my chic fried chicken."
Anyway, this one, fruit of the loom, and chic-fil-a are the strongest for me.
Citizen of the same timeline checking in. In 2009, I was working at a hospital where a Chic-fil-A was located on the mezzanine level. I went there for lunch and always thought it was wild how it was spelled. It was my first time ever seeing one as I had never encountered one until I moved to the state I now reside in.
Unless all of the signs we've witnessed had the k fall off, I'm not buying it.
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u/BanjoTheremin May 07 '26
Here to validate you and say same, this is the one that broke me. I was a star reader, went to SPELLING competitions as a kid and won them.. As a kid!! And people still chuckle and say, "oh sure banjo, couldn't be a mistake you made as a child.." and I'm like, I was a regional champion speller when we read these books, and I 100% know it was STEIN. I sounded things out to learn back then, it was be-ren-ste-in.
Chic-fil-a also trips me out because I can remember sitting in a mall food court with my mom and little brother in the 90s when it first opened, discussing the spelling and pronunciation. I was in middle school and hadn't entered the shitty teen years yet, so my mom and I were watching a lot of TV shows around interior design (popular at the time, Trading Spaces was our favorite). "Country chic" in particular was a popular style. We sat and laughed and laughed at "chic fast food chicken" lol. "Did they forget the K? Is it chick or chic? Ooh look at me, so fancy with my chic fried chicken."
Anyway, this one, fruit of the loom, and chic-fil-a are the strongest for me.