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I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.
Fun fact: That's kind of how you pronounce it in German
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.
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.
It's "kaos" in ("classic") latin bcs it's copypasta from Greek.
wikipedia/Chaos.ogg