Theory: Bullet drop

[exLupo]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

Mast vs Mass as a persistent vocabulary screw-up is pretty impressive.

Near-homophone transposition isn't really that uncommon in cases like this. English is a patchwork language full of loan-words and jargon, like center mass, is usually experienced in a spoken context.

It's why at least a third of the FPS forums are full of questions about "turrents". One of the few downsides of phonetics as a teaching tool.