The left side represents the most common false memories from the Mandela Effect—a psychological phenomenon where large groups of people share the same vivid but incorrect recollection.

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[u/robophile-ta]

Yeah that's correct for German words with an ei but for some reason a lot of people say steen, which would be with an ie in German. Don't really know why, maybe there was confusion or it's different in another language? I know English is usually the opposite with how it pronounces them so it could just be that

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It’s mostly about which wave shaped American English: 1700s–1800s Germans → agrarian, spread out, assimilated, influence faded

Late 1800s–1900s Eastern European Jewish immigrants (Yiddish speakers) → concentrated in cities, more visible, more impact on AE

So their pronunciations stuck. That’s why you get “Ep-steen” instead of the German “Ep-shtine". It’s about visibility and reinforcement, not population size or how early they immigrated.