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Colonel.
Less of how hard it is to actually pronounce, more like how hard it is to believe it's pronounced that way.
Just wait till you try “Lieutenant” in Britain or Canada.
You can find "leftenant" as a normal spelling in older texts. No one is sure why.
right?
Worcestershire
omg "rcester" words are so hard
Kernel
It was spelled with an R in the past, and they tried to change it to an L (because that's how it "properly" should be according to its origins), but only the spelling stuck, probably due to everyone being illiterate anyway.