I was 12 and believed chaos was ‘cha-os’ because I’d only ever seen it written.
That’s probably closer to the original latin than the current English butchery.
It’s “kaos” in (“classic”) latin bcs it’s copypasta from Greek.
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.
I still have the irrepressible urge to pronounce the s at the end of “chaos” because I more or less learnt the word through warhammer 40k. Except in French the s is silent.
But now I’ve moved to the south where the locals have a habit of pronouncing many silent s !
My poor brain is so confused…