[Melas]

I agree 100%. However, giving credit where credit is due, I admit that I’m the world champion at amassing a vocabulary of words, and pronouncing them incorrectly until I’ve heard them. I still remember my father laughing uproariously when I pronounced pedestrains Ped-uh-strains when I was around 7.

But would I trade reading at less than a third of the speed I currently read, and perhaps even have my comprehension suffer to more accurately pronounce words that I’ve read? Not no, but hell no. When I’m in doubt, I’m perfectly capable of reading a pronunciation key.

[muawiyah]

We'd just turned our eldest loose on his first computer and after a few weeks we found he was very concerned with something he called "YOU TILLS".

He brought a documentation book to us and showed us the word "UTILS" which stood for "UTILITIES".

As a family secret-joke we still call new software "YOU TILLS".

[RnMomof7]

But would I trade reading at less than a third of the speed I currently read, and perhaps even have my comprehension suffer to more accurately pronounce words that I’ve read? Not no, but hell no. When I’m in doubt, I’m perfectly capable of reading a pronunciation key.

Exactly... and today we have a" talking" internet to tell us how it is pronounced :)