It genuinely is hard to master more obscure English pronunciation because so much of it is made up of loan words from very different languages, but this will help as a general principle to follow.
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Names from other languages I think are especially obvious for the self taught or avid reader. Euler, Goethe, Camus, etc
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One of my buddies is in his fifties. He's been an avid reader his entire life. He pronounces "chasm" with the ch of "chicken" no matter how much we correct him. I've known him long enough for that word to actually have shown up in conversation a not-insignificant number of times.
People care way too much about correcting people on how to pronounce certain words.
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Annihilator - i used to say annie he lator - the spelling on this word. Seriously.
Hyperbole - like 2 years ago i found out its not hyper bowl. Really?
Onyx - Onks. On icks? Only 40 years saying that word wrong.....
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Reading comments here: TIL
Had to hear Triumvirate before I said it out lound...but honestly it has never come up in casual conversation, so go figure.