Are there any words that you are repeatedly unsure of the pronunciation?

Estettiks

With my consistently misspelled words, I find that I can write them correctly with a pencil, but when I try to type them, I almost always spell them incorrectly. Not as a typo, but some type of “brain fart” for lack of a better term. I also know that I have typed the word incorrectly, but have to use spellcheck to fix it, although if I am writing out that same word, I will write it correctly, or spell it correctly if I am spelling it aloud.

With some of the pronunciations, I mostly chalk that up to mostly “seeing” those words in print, and not “hearing” those words in my every day life.

Neapolitan.. Not entirely sure how to pronounce it. And it is one of my favorite ice creams.

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Au Bon Pain. I know how to spell it but for more than 20 years never learned how to pronounce it.

And then there is that other place similar to Au Bon Pain with a French name as well but can’t recall the name.

Fracas

Words derived from French are especially difficult, given the wide variety of English pronunciation of French words (we pronounce élan more or less the way it’s pronounced in French, but lingerie is only a poor imitation).

It took me a while to figure out how to pronounce “puerperal”. Not that I come across it a lot, but I recently came across it twice in a book I’m reading and after the second, finally decided to commit the pronunciation to memory. I know there are others, but can’t think of any at the moment!

As for spelling, I could never remember how to spell “occurrence”. I would forget that there were two r’s as well as c’s. (I had a similar problem with “accommodate” and “recommend”).

I always have to consciously think whether “surprise” has an r or not, it’s been that way for years…

Vehicle. Idears

The word “definitely” I used to spell incorrectly all the time, but I knew it, and would always go back and correct it. The problem was, with smart phones learning new words, the autocorrect would spell the word how I spell it and it was really aggravating.

I can’t think of a word I have difficulty pronouncing consistently, but just a few days ago I couldn’t get a word out of my mouth correctly. I don’t remember what it was. I have a friend who says a few words incorrectly over and over again, but she thinks she’s right. I guess maybe I have some words like that where I’m not even aware I say them incorrectly.

Some words obviously can be pronounced more than one way and both are correct. Some words, people are adding letters, or taking away letters that aren’t there. The latter is the problem.

My DH always says ideals instead of ideas. It drives me crazy, but is it correct?