What is the most oddly pronounced/spelt word in the English language?

Favre?

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"If you don't understand it,
don't try to understand it."
-Carl Everett

 

The one that I always thought was odd is this:

Say the following words out loud

A-S-H
B-A-S-H
C-A-S-H
D-A-S-H
G-A-S-H
H-A-S-H
L-A-S-H
M-A-S-H
N-A-S-H
R-A-S-H
S-A-S-H
W-A-S-H........Huh? Wash?

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scone...that little triangular english pastry..

its pronounced scän \ä\ as o in mop
like scon...

but it's also pronounced scOne (long o)

wacky
rH

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I don't know, but I always silently mispronounce "respite" when I first read it in a sentence.

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Gascon

 

I don't know about "odd", but the most misspelled word in the English language is "Griffin"...

Or is it Terence?

Huked awn fonix wurked four mi

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Mein bratwurst has a first name, it's F-R-I-T-Z
Mein bratwurst has a second name, it's S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N

 

Is it:

vittles
viddles

or

victuals

only the Beverly Hillbillies know for sure.

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worcestershire sauce
krzyzewski (ok, it's not really English, but it's still weird)
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[This message has been edited by Lobo (edited July 21, 2001).]

 

subtle

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Bryon Russell

Should be "Bryon", but it's pronounced "Byron"

Also choir

 

Actually, it is pronounced "Brian." I have seen interviews where he corrects reporters who call him Byron.

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Antawn's name was mispelled on his birth certificate. It was supposed to be spelled Antwan. His mom just decided to keep the spelling on the birth certificate.



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I have been pronouncing Oswalts name wrong,I thought it was Ozwalt but it is in fact Ohswalt.

Im still going to call him Ozwalt though,it sounds better

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AKA Rendiggler

 

Colonel

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NUTHOAC

 

pnuemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's the medical term for black lung disease.

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Antawn Jamison

It should be "Antawn", but it's pronounced "Antwan"

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squirrel?

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Rarely is the question asked: Guns kill squirrels than REDRUM to fools across the nation?

 

Yeah, I had heard that, but how come he doesn't change it? Or why didn't they change the pronounciation or something?

Oh, and here's for celebrity misspellings: Oprah's name was supposed to be Orpah, but her mother misspelled it on the birth certificate.

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"And I just have to smile and say 'well, I hope so' while I'm really thinking inside how I'd like to just strangle them and take their job."

 

what about WOOGIE


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"The things I enjoy most, I suck at:
1) Sex: everything's fine until she makes noises." - Achebe

 

I hate it when people say 'aks' instead of 'ASK'.



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