And I assure you, it definitely fits the community

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    1 year ago

    I guess you forgot British English exists 😆 I had to have the joke explained to me as that’s the English I was taught and had never heard the pronunciation that way before.

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      1 year ago

      Can you share said explanation with the rest of the dullards such as myself?

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        1 year ago

        Pronounce “lever” to rhyme with “weather” - the punchline will then make sense (I don’t want to write it here in case I spoil it for someone 😀)

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      Oh right, that E) Yeah, I wasn’t even considering British English, went straight to the weird ones in my mind.

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        Haha, the brain works in the weirdest ways sometimes! (Though British English is a bit weird tbh)