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What are some English words that are pronounced differently from the way they are spelled?

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Question added by Samar Saleh , Community Manager , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2013/10/31
aicha Laouar
by aicha Laouar , teacher , ben mahjoub

ascetic

assiduous

buffet

conflagration

Binod Timsina
by Binod Timsina , Human Resources Business Partner , CG Corp Global │ Chaudhary Group

Honest

Island

Colonel

Know

Ascetic

Assiduous

Buffet

Knowledge

Conflagration

Asthma

 

Schedule

Ahmed Said Mahmoud Attalah Attalla
by Ahmed Said Mahmoud Attalah Attalla , Senior master , Ministry of Education. Egypt

We face that most when we come to pronounce , some are common and we use and reapeat , like

Women , for the first time when we come to pronounce sure we will pronounce in a wrong way.

Most words with silent letters may cause confuse ,(ough) in some words are different in pronounciation like plough , though , there is a difference sure in pronouncing although they are ending with the same letters ,also character, we dont use it as ch here in pronouncing but in a different way as k .

We all go back to dictionaries to get the right pronounciation although some words may seem easy to pronounce.

thanks a lot.

AbdulAziz AlSyouf
by AbdulAziz AlSyouf , Airport Resources Coordination Officer , Industry

aisl ,campaign 

haitham assaad
by haitham assaad , Inventory Control Manager , Avient Corporation

Colonel.

Basically.

Campagin.

Weigh (verb).

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Not quite the same thing, but interesting nevertheless, there is a Scottish town: Hawick (Har-wick) and it is pronounced "HOICK".

Lieutenant -  pronounced LOO-TENANT to the Americans and LEF-TENANT to the rest of the world!

Tomato - pronounced TOM-ATE-O to the Americans and TOM-ART-O to the rest of the world!

Anything beginning PSY - psychiatrist, psychologist, psychic etc etc, the "p" being "silent".

Haitham Mostafa Mohammed Abd Allateef
by Haitham Mostafa Mohammed Abd Allateef , American Education , Smart City International Schools

I t depends, by experience 

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Almost all of , :-)

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