RX: "...and the box even had a picture of a clown on the front."Me: "Yeah, I remember that box. It was a lot of kids first introduction to c... clownophobia."RX: "There's actually a word for that: 'coulrophobia'."Me: "Oh, I know the word, but I suddenly realized I had no idea how to pronounce it."
Before the internet, I would have had to go to the bookshelf with the big dictionary, look this up, and decipher what the the good people of Oxford meant by "kälrəˈfōbēə".
Now I can turn to Google...
...or just say out loud "Alexa, how do you pronounce the word for a fear of clowns?"
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