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You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I'm picking "Colonel" needs to be respelled to match how it's pronounced.

Try to pick a word no one else has picked. What word are you respelling?

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[โ€“] 24 points 3 years ago (11 children)

Since Queue has already been posted: Quay. Now spelled Kee.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    You and I pronounce 'quay' very differently.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

    How do you pronounce it? I had some American tourists ask me for directions to the "kway" before. Only time I've ever heard a different pronunciation.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I've always heard it pronounced kway... Is that wrong?

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's wrong, even in the US.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    Quay is one of those words like bowline or boatswain that's commonly mispronounced because people see it in writing without hearing it said. Bowline "properly" rhymes with pin, and boatswain sounds like bosun.

    A similar thing happened to solder in Britain, where it originally had a silent l as a nod to its Latin etymology, but some people started pronouncing it.

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