bosom is pronounced very differently than one would think from its spelling, but boatswain is pronounced very similarly to how one would think bosom is pronounced from its spelling

@Felthry Wait wh, how do you say boatswain? :3

Naively I would think "boat" + "swain" [rhyming with Twain], but I guess that's not it...

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@IceWolf /bozən/ or /boːzən/, it's sometimes also written as bosun because of this pronunciation.

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