"Vocabulary" is one. I just checked it and I almost guessed right. I thought the u was more of an oo and the second a was ah not eh. Parallel - for some reason

"Vocabulary" is one. I just checked it and I almost guessed right. I thought the u was more of an oo and the second a was ah not eh. Parallel - for some reason the second a is eh not ah. Can't remember that, have to check it every time. I play a lot of D&D over the internet in English and even as common word as "sword" is for some reason hard to remember. Every time I have to guess if the "w" is pronounced or not. been == bin ? - the rules for that are just evil > Do you think that if you heard them without seeing the word you'd realize what the written form was? Sure, from the context if not instantly. I listen to a lot of English media with different accents (I watched the whole Big Bang and IT Crowd and I listen to Critical Role when I'm commuting). > might there be words where you know the written form and the spoken form and don't realize it's the same word? Leicester and queue. But these are famous enough that I remember them now. I obviously won't be able to give you examples that I still haven't realized ;)