And 'Preface' too...

How is it supposed to be pronounced ?

When I was little I thought facade was pronounced "fay-kade", cuz I had only ever seen the word in pokemon lol

It's a [chaotic](https://youtu.be/tfRSvTSY0d4) language.

It's ok. The only reason I say Digital right is because of Digimon. When I was a kid I said that way wrong. Bless you Digimon 

Idk how, but as a child watching gaming videos, I got a massive vocabulary and knew how to pronounce all of it since it was being spoken Throughout all of school, I never really learned any new words because I already knew it all Except "jargon," which I'll never forget, is like the only word I didn't know

I thought orchard was or-kurd.

DEH-zig-NAY-shun PREH-fiss 

I’m a native speaker, and I didn’t pronounce “awry” correctly till college.

De zig nation

For all of you who know the IPA, a great website for pronunciation help is toPhonetics.com because it allows you type in a word and translate it into the IPA both in British and American English. Unfortunately, it doesn’t account for dialects or accents beyond standard English.

That happens to us native English speakers, too! 😭😭😭

Wait, how are you mispronouncing these?

I didn't hear the word "detritus" said out loud until I was an adult.

Forvo is a good resource for this.

Thx. I actually didnt knew i was saying preface wrong 😁

My older brother pronounced the “b” in “subtle” until he was like 18 and I corrected him. Even for native speakers — if we haven’t heard some words out loud, or have only read them in books or something… we might not know the correct way to pronounce the word. Even if we understand all of the language/grammatical rules.

When I first learned the words "whereas" and "albeit", I didn't recognize them as "where as" and "all be it". I pronounced them as their own words when I was a child: WHERE-ee-ahz and al-BITE. It took an *incredibly* long time for me to fix this lol

Thanks to 12 years of ~~suffering~~ playing War Thunder, now I don’t have any issues pronouncing designation.

that's why I love English 

so true

Knowing words but not knowing how to pronounce them is a good thing. It means you read. I said "vehemently" incorrectly for years.