Yes, the embarrassment of having only read a word and never having heard it pronounced correctly is something I've experienced since childhood! I remember some funny mispronunciations of "eccentric", "cantankerous", and "hyperbole".
Having learned to read phonetically I still vividly remember the moment as a kid when I realised that the world 'foreign' was not pronounced 'fo-ray-zhun' LOL
As a voracious reader from the moment that I learned to read, I hardly ever remember having issues with spelling as words just 'looked wrong' if I misspelled them.
Like HK, I still have some persistent misspellings, though, I instinctively spell weird as 'wierd', for instance, which is weird itself LOL
