#2025-11-13: added misconceptions about sitcoms/soap operas and 401(k); also some minor formatting changes and addressed dead links on some of the pages in this section
other things: added notes about /mət/ vs. /mənt/ and rhymes involving non-rhotic accents; mentioned that I think I sometimes use /ps/ at starts of words
specific words: added comfortable, onomatopoeia, route, #include, 101; reworded caramel, furnature, have to, and the note at the bottom about /ʌ/
used to pronounce: new section; moved clothes, crayon, milk, mirror there; birthday, camouflage, measure/treasure, (lawn) mower are new
misconceptions: added misconceptions about the War of 1812, "money laundering", "suck", "manila", "brought to you by", and "plus sizes"; reworded the one about "unemployment rate" again
fixed the last updated date on idiolect (which since I was changing it meant I had to change it to today, since changing the date is a change)
#2026-03-12: first published version of sight; also changed the breadcrumbs of a bunch of pages to include the home page for this section (even though that page isn't yet linked to from the main home page)
idiolect: went through the whole document looking for things I might be able to explain better or no longer are sure are completely true
added an introduction, which includes some caveats
edited the common features section, including changing the pita/Peter example to cheetah/cheater (since apparently pita has an alternative pronunciation that I didn't know about when I first wrote that), mentioning that I might use /ʍ/ in some foreign names, hopefully made it a bit clearer which vowel caught/cot are merged to, and mentioned that I have the hurry-furry merger (moved from the syllabic /l/ section) and that I don't have the pin-pen merger
rewrote the section on ⟨th⟩; I'm less certain than I was about how I actually pronounce that sound
some slight changes to the section on vowels before /ɡ/ and /ŋ/, including that I'm not sure if the exception for income and penguin actually applies when I'm speaking
mentioned that I might be inconsistent about -olk words
a couple extra notes in the section on breaking
reworded the section on syllabic /l/, and added a note about allophony
added audio (previously posted on the xkcd forums) about the CURE split
added a section about schwa, and moved a couple things from other sections there
mentioned "there was a time in my life when I intentionally pronounced certain silent letters, and that might have kind of stuck" in the note about ⟨ps⟩ (also added the actual pronunciations of psi and xi)
moved where I talked about "and" in numbers, and mentioned why they told us to do it that way
new words in the "specific words" section: Aesop, aesthetic, either/neither, err, Sciuridae, SQL, SQLite, with, wolf, women, wool, a section for suffixes, ketchup, and a section for spelling pronunciations
mentioned that I'm not sure if I've said the word aural out loud
removed coordinate, because I pronounced it in my head in a different way than what was listed; I think my pronunciation is inconsistent enough to be all of the possible pronunciations in free variation
added colons to the "specific words" section
clarified "not very consistent" in the section on writing
changed /ol/ to /oʊl/, and /iʊ/ and /ɪʊ/ to /ɪu/, because I was inconsistent about those in a way that wasn't meant to convey actual differences, and made sure all the IPA had syllable separators and stress markers
fixed some spelling mistakes
some formatting changes
there are a lot of changes and I might have missed something here
sight: put a bit more detail into the part about sunglasses, added a section on facial recognition, and fixed some spelling mistakes
#2026-04-06: fixed a few typos, including changing "childhood idiolect" to "idiolect" in the title of the previous update page (that was a copy/paste error from a previous page that included childhood misconceptions)