I posted about this a few years ago with some examples of what I eventually just thought were coincidence; I would be silently thinking about something and a video or ad for it would come up in my algorithm. Mumsnet told me not to be so silly. My husband just told me that our phones know us better than we know ourselves, and the content it produces is based on what it knows we are interested in.
Well. Tonight, I was (silently) putting something into the bin and had a very quick thought that American people pronounced the word 'been' as 'bin' . Then I started thinking about English actors doing American accents, and how they probably work with dialect coaches who probably tell them to say 'bin' instead of 'been' as part of their coaching.
So then around 2 hours later I was on youtube shorts for some dopamine and up comes a video from a dialect coach. She is explaining to non native English speakers how they can speak with a US accent. She goes over three words and explains how they are pronounced differently. One is what, another of and the final one 'been'.
I instantly remembered my silent thought from before and it just all seemed really weird.
Anyone else have similar stories? It was just so specific!