My favorite is Steven Pinker asking how to pronounce “ghoti”
It’s FISH
gh as in laugh
o as in women
and ti as in nation
As a speech/language pathology major (and an English/Linguistics minor) it is so much fun to mess with my friend’s heads in class *giggles*
The most common vowel in the English language, the schwa, doesn’t even have its own letter of the alphabet! Latin was sparse on vowels, so when we adopted their alphabet, we forced each vowel letter to represent TWO sounds.