Everyone knows that "read receipts" — the time stamp that shows up when you read someone's text message — are the creation of the devil and deserve their own episode of Black Mirror.
But have you ever thought about how the "read" in "read receipts" can be pronounced two different ways: as the past tense, like "red," or present tense, like "reed"?
On the one hand, you have to "reed" the text message for the time stamp to show up.
But on the other hand, the time stamp doesn't show up until the text message has been "red."
Basically, this is all of us right now, realizing there was another way to pronounce "read receipts" all along:
BTW, we've reached out to Apple to see what the *official* pronunciation for "read receipts" is, but we still want to hear what you have to say.
H/T The Hairpin & Mic, who first posed this question, and Twitter user @yc, who polled the internet.
UPDATE
This post has been updated to reflect that The Hairpin and Mic first posed this question online.
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