As someone who developed large swathes of his vocabulary from reading, I've been prone to mispronunciations of some of my more recondite vocabulary.¹ I can reme

As someone who developed large swathes of his vocabulary from reading, I've been prone to mispronunciations of some of my more recondite vocabulary.¹ I can remember learning that indict was the same word as the "indite"² I'd hear on the news.³ ⸻⸻⸻ 1. To say nothing of the gross confusion in my inner voice when I'm reading the Vulgate text of the Bible where the words come out in a gross amalgam of classical and ecclesiastical Latin. 2. It doesn't help that there's an actual word "indite" which is a homophone of "indict" with a different meaning. 3. I was home on winter break from college and was rather proud of a paper I'd written with "indicting" in the title when my dad asked me how the word was pronounced and I checked the dictionary. My dad was also the one who taught me that the t in often is silent (although since that day in the 1970s, dictionaries have become less prescriptive in their pronunciation guides and they now give the pronunciation with and without a silent t).