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...Up until now, I still thought that. That's... significantly less fantastical, and I think a small part of me just died.

Another good one: gaol = jail. I kept pronouncing it in my head like "gowl".

'Epitome' will forever be epi-tome in my head: 'epi' like in EpiPen and tome as in a big heavy book.

And the 'c' in 'indictment' also always gets pronounced when I read the word to myself.

this language is bullshit

I knew that long ago, but it'll remain drawt in my brain, just because....

Thanks, as a non native english speaker, TIL that I also pronounced it wrong the whole time...

What the hell is going on with french keyboards anyway?

horse doovrey

Škrt plch z mlh Brd pln skvrn z mrv prv hrd scvrnkl z brzd skrz trs chrp v krs vrb mls mrch srn čtvrthrst zrn.

Actually (pronounced acktschually) it’s ‘shayz long’ The ‘s’ is usually only silent when it’s the last letter of the word.

Shez Long

It literally means long chair. Not lounge chair.

Nobody pronounces "bruschetta" correctly; it's "broo-SKET-ta"

Every letter after the first is completely unnecessary.

As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.

Could y'all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.

Dearest creature in Creation, Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

It will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye your dress you'll tear. So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,

Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it? Just compare heart, beard and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain, (Mind the latter, how it's written!) Made has not the sound of bade, Say—said, pay—paid, laid, but plaid.

Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague, But be careful how you speak, Say break, steak, but bleak and streak,

Previous, precious; fuchsia, via; Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir, Cloven, oven; how and low; Script, receipt; shoe, poem, toe,

Hear me say devoid of trickery, daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles, Missiles, similes, reviles,

Finally: which rhymes with "enough," Though, through, plough, cough, hough, or tough? Hiccough has the sound of "cup"... My advice is—give it up!

• A shortened version of The Chaos by Dutch poet Gerard Nolst Trenité

Mostly the opposite situation to your comment since they're spelled the same but pronounced differently, but it feels relevant

It could be a brain fart, but 'compound'...?