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What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?
colonel /ˈkərnl/
This has to be the worst word for me - I know that is pronounced ker-nil, but EVERY time I read it the pronunication in my head is col-o-nel. How is colonel "ker-nil" anyway?! :) …