I can't believe that it took 8 pages for someone to give the right explanation.
I think it had more to do how we were taught to pronounce certain words or names or our familiarity with the certain words ie. Einstein, Frankenstein, Berenstein.
shyt was always Berenstain, just goes to show how memories aren't always reliable.
"Stein" is more common in a last name than "Stain." Also stain is a word that kids may find uncomfortable. People probably wanted to pronounce it stein to avoid saying stain. It would be like meeting a Chinese guy named Phuk. You would probably call him fooook to avoid pronouncing his name as fukk.
I was going to say this but read through the whole thread first and found that at least someone had already said it.
When you were a kid and you heard, "stain", you had never heard someone named "stain" or anything like that before. But everyone knew about "EinSTEIN", or "FrankenSTEIN", or other "stein" names, so when you heard or read the unfamiliar "stain" your brain just treated it like "stein", and you repeated it to yourself that way later. So that's how you remember it.
The fact that people occasionally misspelled it, even when they were making the books, were a symptom of the same problem and helped to perpetuate it.
It's like when White Colonialists went to foreign countries and renamed all their cities the way they thought they heard them. So all the cities got fukked up White-distorted names, like "Mumbai" sounded like "Bombay" to the British, because that was closer to what they were used to. That happened all over the world. Same thing here - you heard/saw what you were used to rather than what was actually there.
Has anyone figured out why some people have dejavu all the time.
Yes - dejavu comes from a memory allocation issue. You have short-term memory and long-term memory. When you hold something in your head for around 15 seconds, it goes into long-term memory. But on occasion, your brain has a glitch and it puts something into long term memory immediately. Your short-term memory is meanwhile placing the scene into long-term memory over the next 15 seconds, but then it sees that the scene is already there, and you get confused..."wait, isn't this scene already in my memory...maybe it happened before?" It's not that the scene happened before, it's that a brain shortcut put it into your long-term memory before your short-term memory got around to doing the same thing.
Some people have this particular brain glitch more than others, just because all our brains are unique.