If the word is so rare, there’s a very good chance the listener hasn’t heard it spoken either. Think of it as your opportunity to seed a pronunciation that you

If the word is so rare, there’s a very good chance the listener hasn’t heard it spoken either. Think of it as your opportunity to seed a pronunciation that you like. (The nice and frustrating thing about English is that ultimately there are no rules. There’s no Academy sitting on a throne deciding how billions of English users speak and write — but on the flip side, nobody can fix the catastrophic spelling of this language either.)