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Go on, go mad and order an Indian takeaway!!
Enjoy whatever you have 
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I can't pronounce the word 'crisps' properly.
I say crispspsps.
If I try to stop adding the extra psps at the end, I end up missing the p off altogether and say criss.
My eldest son used to say crispspsps when he was very young, now 40 years later he's managed to refine it to crispsps. 
The Polish city of Lodz is pronounced woodj (with a long oo sound like food) 
There's even a video to explain it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCnS4a2Mnjg
Lovely girl, nice jumper. 
Probably the same reason that digest is pronounced dye-jest and not diggest.
The prefix di is from a Greek root meaning two/twice/double. I think whether you pronounce it with a hard or soft sound depends on whether the following consonant is hard or soft or whether it is followed by a single or double consonant or even whether the following consonant is followed by a vowel. The English language is full of irregularities of pronunciation, spelling and grammar because it has evolved from many sources.
Eg. digest has a hard i and a soft g but the g is followed by a vowel
digress has a hard i and a hard g but the g is followed by a consonant
digger has a soft i and a hard g because in this case it is a double consonant
All very confusing. 
Back when I was at school the only way to learn difficult pronunciations was through practice which involved reading aloud in class and being corrected by a knowledgeable teacher. That hasn't happened in schools for a long time now. There are word endings with such a variety of pronunciations that it's virtually impossible to learn them any other way. Take for example the ending ....ough.
Enough, cough, plough, dough, thought, through, thorough, hiccough. That's eight different pronunciations without the Gaelic variants like lough and there are probably many more.
English is constantly changing and we need very high level of teaching skills to keep on top of it in schools. From when the Oxford English Dictionary was first published until around 20 years ago there were only two complete German words in it, wanderlust and hinterland. Both quite useful terms as there is no single English word equivalent. Now we see lots more creeping into speech and printed works like.....ersatz meaning substitute, zeitgeist meaning 'spirit of the age' or thereabouts and schadenfreude meaning 'the act of taking pleasure from other peoples' misfortunes'. (What a useful word that is)
We absorb new words all the time from several other languages which makes it difficult for foreigners to learn but it certainly makes the language more vibrant and interesting on the whole. As far as I know English is the only language that has such a variety of words that we need to publish a Thesaurus, I think that's something we should be proud of.
Seems to be a lot of controversy on this thread
But is it con-troversy or contro-versy
Then there is Hiroshima
Is that Hiro-sheema or hirosh-imma
