Worst word (pronunciation)?
My vote: Colonel = “ker-nal”. How does one justify the ghost R to anyone?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-colonel-pronounced-r-and-more-questions-our-readers-180953036/
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