Quote Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard View Post
You're right, I pronounce it correctly
Hmmm.
Quote Originally Posted by The Guardian
The reason why people from the commonwealth say "lef-tenant" can probably be attributed to the U being misread as a V during the middle ages, which in turn developed into and F sound.
You pronounce it the way you do because the Brits couldn't even read their own language, according to themselves.