According to Shaw, the English spell their language "so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate and despise him."
How do you pronounce the following words?
a) Majoribanks, Cholmondeley, Derby, Pall Mall, Marylebone, Cirencester, Greenwich, Warwick, Magdalen College, Caius College, Edinburgh, Ponsonby, Beauchamp, Ingoldsby
Legends, Colquhoun, Dalziel, December, July, Arundel, English, Monday.
b) Dance, garage, robot, Causeway, gunwale, boatswain, starboard, forecastle, waistcoat, trait, clothes, forehead, vineyard, poignant, asthma, isthmus, often, caoutchouc, charade, suave, scone, mortgage, sceptic. yacht, slough, aerated, aquatic, viands, trough, victuals.
c) Incomparable, inexorable, formidable, socialism, capitalism, decorous, petard, vagary, controversy, centenary, curater, deficit, dirigible, exquisite, ideal, idyll, irrevocable, lapel, livelong, quandary, reputable, research.
d) Carillon, culinary, constable, counterfeit, coup, data, envelope, dynast, ennui, eyrie, fakir, fetish, geyser, housewife (needle case), longevity, medicine naive, nephew, puisne, Scion, route, Sioux, ski, Soviet, succinct, vitamins.
Source: English Grammar: EBH Joubert
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