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125: Making 'The Interstate’s Forgotten Code'

Cortex

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The Worst Pronunciation Errors

There's a couple of places where i just pronounce the name wrong. The worst one in there is, i say penumbra, north dakota. I looked at that i cannot tell you how many times, with listening to the pronunciation guides. There is no r sound in that town name. It didn't stop me that every time i said it in all the recordings, like, i said it wrong in a slightly different way. And i had to just go with, well, i'm going to take the take that's the least wrong take. You're always going to run up against this kind of local knowledge. and yes, it's extremely hard being on the other side

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