pronunciation - How is victualling pronounced? - English Language . . . 3 Victuals is famously pronounced "vittles" But how is victualling, as in victualling yard, pronounced? I presume the "c" remains silent, but various unsourced and presumably autogenerated pronunciation videos suggest both "vittling" and "vittualing"
orthography - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I've always thought that "victual" was a funny word because its spelling and pronunciation are so alien to anything else I know of in the English language The free dictionary explains the origin
pronunciation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Our victuals now being vtterly spent, hauing eaten hides 6 or 7 daies, we thought it best to beare back againe for Dominica, the Islands adioyning, knowing that there we might haue some reliefe, whereupon we turned backe for the said Islands
Vittler as supplier of food - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The OED turns up vittler as one of various rejected spellings of victualler or victualer (others range from vytaylour to wytteller to vetuler) The word victual referring to food or other provisions comes to English from the Norman French vitaile, from medieval Latin victualis The spelling was later standardized closer to the Latin (both in English and in French— victuaille), hence the
Non-phonetic words - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Unfortunately, this term would apply not only to extreme cases like victuals and colonel, but probably also to words like island and weigh and many others (especially loan words) If you only want to include extreme cases where the pronunciation isn't even mildly predictable from the spelling, you might use the term highly non-phonetic word
etymology - Why is indict pronounced indite? - English Language . . . Just as a general thing: there are rather a lot of words in English whose spelling was adjusted to reflect Latin cognates after the word was already common in the language Victuals, for instance, was vittailes when Chaucer wrote it, and is pronounced vittles