Making Light:  A spelling demonology ::: March 22, 2007, 01:28 PM

Chris (308) mentions `"ichthyology", which is consistently
mispronounced "ick-theology".' I don't think that word means
what you think it means.

English (or American English) dictionaries describe the pronunciation
used by speakers of the language; if it is consistently used by native
speakers, it can hardly be an error.  When English picks the pockets
of other languages, it often shucks off any inconvenient phonemes in
order to make the swag easier to conceal.

How would you imagine ichthyology could be correctly pronounced?
icks-theology?  Maybe the first step is figuring out why "chi" is
pronounced "kiy".