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HelpI must stress the fact that it's pronounced, "Rin-DOE-linn." nt
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Lol - it doesn't matter how you say it . . .
. . . people will hear it how they want. The fact that three different people thought "ritalin" indicates that people would take the unfamiliar sound and try to make it "fit" with a familiar sound. Sometimes, also, people simply can't seem to reproduce the sound you say to them. (Remember the Enrique Iglesias song Bailamos from a few years ago? In the song this is clearly pronounced "by-la-MOR", but I heard all sorts of pronunciations from radio announcers, the most notable sounding something like "barley-moss"!) People hear what they want or expect, not always what you say. Rindolen is so unfamiliar that you would definitely get some strange pronunciations, Ritalin among them!
. . . people will hear it how they want. The fact that three different people thought "ritalin" indicates that people would take the unfamiliar sound and try to make it "fit" with a familiar sound. Sometimes, also, people simply can't seem to reproduce the sound you say to them. (Remember the Enrique Iglesias song Bailamos from a few years ago? In the song this is clearly pronounced "by-la-MOR", but I heard all sorts of pronunciations from radio announcers, the most notable sounding something like "barley-moss"!) People hear what they want or expect, not always what you say. Rindolen is so unfamiliar that you would definitely get some strange pronunciations, Ritalin among them!
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