Dilemna: Is the Mandela Effect Craze Over?

I first came across this concept on a ridiculous online thread about how New Zealand had apparently moved from the west of Australia to the east. This whole thing is based on poor memories and people being unwilling to admit they got anything wrong, ever.

Now that things can be looked up instantaneously and the line between fact and untruth has been blurred by social media, reality tv and politicians, people may not trust their own memories or even know what was their own memory (see Blade Runner 2049).

Yes, I was a spelling bee queen, and the textbooks spelled it dilemna in the 1960s. I was shocked when spell check said otherwise in the 2000s when I used it in an email.

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Turns out it's magic mirror on the wall. I recall it the first way.

[quote]I first came across this concept on a ridiculous online thread about how New Zealand had apparently moved from the west of Australia to the east. This whole thing is based on poor memories and people being unwilling to admit they got anything wrong, ever.

You mean Krakatoa ISN'T east of Java?

There are apparently many people on DL who think that Ethel Mertz said "I've had sufficient," despite overwhelming evidence that proves she said "I HAVE sufficient."

R3, the same thing happened to me with SpellCheck in 2010 when typing out "dilemna" and it kept switching to "dilemma."

I clearly remember my Junior year in high school in 1982 learning the spelling was "dilemna" with that bizarre silent "n."

And I was STUNNED by the SpellCheck!

R3 and R7 went to school in the Southern United States.

It was never 'dilemna'. WTH?

No, never, apparently.

But thousands of people around the world remember it as “dilemna”.

Then they should have their ears and eyes checked.

I’m with you on both counts, OP. Same with dilemna.

Most of the Mandela Effect is cognitive dissonance and narcissism (there's no way I could simply be wrong, the only explanation is the existence of a whole other universe in which I am correct!).

Memory can be quite suggestible also. As for dilemna, apparently it has been used for a long time, though it was never frequent in print nor "correct" in the dictionary sense. Sometimes the wrong spelling of a word just takes root and becomes somewhat common.

[quote]Occasionally misspelled as dilemna, perhaps originally via false analogy with words such as condemn, solemn, and hymn. This spelling has been reportedly taught in many regions of Great Britain and the United States as well as around the world; and can be found in the works of many well-known authors (e.g. Isaac Watts, Defoe & Goldsmith).

Do you remember Tom Cruise wearing sunglasses during the dance scene in Risky Business? I do but apparently this never happened.

The “craze” is not over. I do think that the internet has made way for it to exist. Previously we would have assumed we’d misremembered the name Froot Loops, rather than that a separate universe existed where they were known as Fruit Loops. The echo chamber of others with similar misremembrances convinces people they are on to something. Very strange.

Graham Nash told a story about how he was at the Roosevelt racetrack in 1974 and he and the other members of CSNY heard backstage that Nixon resigned, and he and the band climbs onstage and announced it and the whole crowd went crazy. “When Nixon resigned in August 1974, we were onstage at the Roosevelt Raceway in New York, in front of 60,000 people (it was actually 80,000 people) . We had a TV backstage.

‘Guess what, folks? He’s gone!’ we announced. We didn’t have to say who, everyone knew. Huge cheers erupted.

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I was at that concert. It happened about a month after Nixon resigned. You can look it up.

[quote]Mirror, mirror on the wall. Turns out it's magic mirror on the wall. I recall it the first way.

I only recall James Mason saying "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the greatest star of them all?" in A Star Is Born

[quote]Do you remember Tom Cruise wearing sunglasses during the dance scene in Risky Business? I do but apparently this never happened.

You're just remembering the conflating it with the cover of the movie.

Or, let's try that again in English...

You're just conflating it with the cover of the movie.

I just can’t believe “they” went and changed Eli Whitney’s race!

I used to think there was an N in dilemma, but at some point started noticing it was actually two M's. This was years before I heard of the Mandela effect.

I've always had the Berenstain spelling right, though. I used to have a roommate whose last name was Bernstein, and have always been a big fan of Leonard Bernstein. "Berenstain" stood out as such an unusual spelling, I couldn't not notice it every time I saw it. And I saw it fairly often, as I worked in a bookstore at one point, and would regularly have to shelve Berenstain Bears books.

[quote]You're just conflating it with the cover of the movie.

He wears Ray-Bans in the movie. Just not in that scene.

I have never heard of that weird spelling of dilemma.

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