Willing to be a lot of these are simply old words, spelled out when things were not settled, or pronunciations changed over hundreds of years (or moving to the US). Gonna make a little list and probably check it later. Pronunciation is based on common ways to say things in my region of English speakers.
WORD - PRONUNCIATION
1. What - pronounced "wut" usually.
2. One - "wun"
3. Two - "too"
4. Women - wimmin
5. Fire - fah_ee_yer or fiyer or fi-er, but one or two syllables... you know what I mean.
6. Water - waw-ter ... how the hell is this pronounced like that based on the spelling? Compare to daughter.
7.
Local or USA oddities:
- bizzare - pronounced "bizzar"... yeah, I think we say the short "i", but m-w says it is a schwa sound like bazaar.
- Mary, merry, marry - all said the same way around here. I think the hollywood accent coach on ty said there is one small part of the US where you can hear a difference in one of them. NE i think.
- Queue - sounds like "cue" as in "kyoo". Doesn't follow any of the damn rules that any other "QU" word would use. And why the EUE at the end? Bothers me a lot.
- Examples of normal QU words:
- quiet - "kwi - it" with the long i sound on first syllable.
- quaint - "kwaint" long A
- xxxxxx
- anemone
(ah-NEM-oh-nee) not
(ah-NEn-oh-nee) - açaí
(ah-sah-EE) antennae
(an-TEN-ee) - the plural can also be said "antennas"... Let's just say it like it's really converted to English. Latin is dead, let it die a little bit.
Bob wire vs. Barbed wire. It's a fun colloquial way to say it, chill out.
barbiturate
(bar-BIH-chur-ite) not "bar bih chooy ite" ... WRONG, M-W.com says you can use either one as in: bär-bə-ˈtyu̇r-ətbon appétit
(bow nap-uh-TEA) not -TEAT ... interesting, that makes sense, but I wonder about locals localscacophony
(cuh-CAW-fone-ee) WRONG, M-W says it can be ka-ˈkä-fə-nē -ˈkȯ-, also -ˈka-
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