I hadn't noticed "toward" before, but yeah, "squirrel" is always a surprise.

I listen to some US podcasts, and food words throw me a lot:
- pronouncing "herbs" without the H like it's a French word (which is presumably where they got it, but they don't say the vowel the French way.)
- pronouncing "almonds" as "all monds", not "ah monds"
- pronouncing "pecan" with the accent on the second syllable, "pe CAHN"