This is a vaguely Heroes-related post, because in one of those interviews, Jack Coleman uses the word “unbeknownst”, which causes Adrian Pasdar to freak out, saying he does not know the word. I have no idea if he’s joking (which would not be a surprise) or serious (which would be okay, Adrian, ;D you’re still pretty*).
Anyway, I saw someone write that word as “unbenounced”, which made me Google because hey, there could have been a similar-sounding word in the English language that I don’t know. It’s always possible.
Apparantly, “unbenounced” is a popular (?) misspelling of “unbeknownst”…? The oddest thing was when people knew the meaning, knew “unbenounced” was not a real, official, correct word, but did not know that it’s a misspelling of a real word with the same meaning. How confusing!
A gem from a forum somewhere:
need to clerify a words existance
unbenounced…. just wnat to amke sure its a real word. im using it in a speach
* OK. Moderately handsome. Spent too much time looking at Sendhil to find Adrian truly awe-inspiring. This is only natural.
