Words you have read wrong all your life.

Just as the title suggests, the pragmatics of the American-English language are hard to fully grasp. The rules of letter sounds are all kinds of crazy and twisted, and it's one of the hardest languages to learn for English-Language learners (from both personal accounts and from others, as I married into a family that predominantly speaks another language). As someone that is getting their BA in Speech and Language Disorders, I personally am aware of the complications of the language. Being part of the school system, I am also aware of how even those born into the English language struggle with reading and writing in the high school levels. Through my college courses, I have learned something...

....I have been reading words wrong pretty much since I came to the United States. I actually had points docked from a Phonetics transcription because of how I read these words, and that's when I discovered my errs.

The following words were: chasm and cache. Both words I have always read as Ch-a-zum, but it's more like k-a-sum-. Then Cashay for cache. I did bring up a pretty solid case for getting at least half-credit for my errors, but it just reminded me about how funny the rules of the language are.

Apparently genuine isn't pronounce gen-you-wine, and i'm besides myself at constant.