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  • Pareidolia

    Pareidolia

    Seeing familiar objects or patterns in otherwise random or unrelated objects is called Pareidolia. Etymologically speaking, the word derives from the Greek words pará, “beside, alongside, instead [of]” and eídōlon “image, form, shape”. Pareidolia is something most of us experience but few of us know how to pronounce. For the record, it’s:pear-uh-dole-ee-uh(This according to my phonetics, the

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