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I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.
I still have the irrepressible urge to pronounce the s at the end of "chaos" because I more or less learnt the word through warhammer 40k. Except in French the s is silent. But now I've moved to the south where the locals have a habit of pronouncing many silent s !
My poor brain is so confused...
Had a classmate that thought the same. 20 years later, still amused by how funny we thought that was.
Similar to me, I used to believe chaos was pronounced 'caus'
That's probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
It's "kaos" in ("classic") latin bcs it's copypasta from Greek.
wikipedia/Chaos.ogg
Wait, what is the current English butchery? Non-native speaker here.
Oh, just in general. English is the cronenburg monster of languages and pronunciation. We will steal your words, pronounce them weirdly, use them wrongly, and claim they've always been ours.
Behold, the original Kronenbourg monster.