English is full of words that don”t sound like they look. Thought could be written with just 4 letters (three if we still used þ), we replace the first l in colonel with an r, and we don’t pronounce the th in asthma. Victuals is another one of those words. The first time you see this word—if you’ve never heard it spoken—it’s easy to think it’s… Continue reading How to pronounce “victuals”