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Patient has, for 18 years, pronounced 'quinoa' as 'kwin-OH-ah'. Patient has been corrected seven times. Patient has retained the wrong version. It is now part of them.
Permanent. Public correction is treated as social violence.
None. Avoid the word entirely in their presence.
Patients with Chronic Mispronounced-Word Commitment typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic Mispronounced-Word Commitment present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Dictio aberrante fidelis, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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