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I'm so sorry. I assumed I was the last to know.

Fret not! Hang on to "draut" in your mind with the rest of us early readers. And when you need to say draft, just spell it draft. Meanwhile in the privacy of your own head, you can think, "I'm hot, so I'll take a long refreshing draught of this draft beer whilst I stand in the cool draught from the door. " We'll never tell.

Australian, I flat out refused to ever use 'gaol' from the moment I first encountered it in school.

Interesting, I never had an issue with those but the one that got my growing up was awry. I still want to read it as "aw-ree" like "awful" despite knowing it's actually "ah-rye". I also knew the latter as a spoken word but I guess I didn't question how it was spelled for a long time.

Fun, less useful fact in a similar vein: "Antipode" is pronounced "anti-pode" how you'd expect but the plural "Antipodes" is pronounced "an-ti-po-dees"like A Greek word. I still have no idea why that's the case.

Yup. First pronunciation to make it to long-term storage, wins forever!

Like hyperbole, it's always "hyper-bowl" to me

See you just type the o and e really really fast. That way the o doesn’t have the time to get out of the way of the e and they sorta get smooshed together. It takes some practice but you’ll get there.

Wait have you never seen long press?

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Most normal czech/polish type sentence

From Google Translate: "A scythe of the nightingale from the mist A bridle full of carrion stains, the first pride shrivelled from the bridle through a cornflower cluster in the willow bush, a carrion deer quarter of a handful of grain."

You should hear how the French pronounce it. Can’t even recognise it as English anymore.

As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.