20ish years ago in school they taught all us muttlings that the word "mississippi" takes about one second to pronounce out loud. to demonstrate they had us pronounce "missisipi" out loud as a stopwatch ran. i vividly remember that we could easily pronounce the whole word before a second was out. you had to speak a little slower than usual to make it take a full second. fast forward to today, no pun intended, and i can barely speak half the word before a second has run by on the clock. the full word deliberately pronounced like they had us do in school to gauge a second...now takes over two seconds to say.  there's no fucking way they haven't, somehow, sped up time.
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