• Davel23@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    My 8th grade science teacher pronounced it “auger”, so that’s how I spelled it on a test and got marked wrong.

    • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      This might be regional. I got to my sophomore year of a bio degree (including HS, in which most of my electives were science) before I heard anything other than “auger” (pronounced like the hole digging tool).

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I suspect they’d also mark you down for kissing the lab equipment….

      Who knows what those freaks used it for last. (Probably setting gummy bears on fire,)