If You Mispronounce These 14 Words, You'll Sound Unprofessional

"Pernickety"

I've never heard anyone use this word, even though it might be technically correct. At some point culture changes words and the new word is the correct one.

"orientate" is listed in most dictionaries. Merriam Webster has a nice post about it [0]

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/orient-or-orie...

If you mispronounce this 1 word, you will sound professional: SQL

Maybe if the words were spelled according to the way they are to be pronounced, we would not need to go through an exercise of memorization like this.