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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago

In this thread, a lot of folks who would use their one wish to make the language better.

But I would change "their" to be spelled "the're" and pronounced "all'y'all's".

I hope I do grow up to be more like the rest of you, and make better choices, in the future.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People like you being in charge is how English got to this position in the first place!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Your rite, and I regret my choices.

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago

Nesscary

...Neccisary

.......Neseccary

Fuck it, it's now "Nesisary"

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Do the needful.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

English orthography is awful. Hard "c" AND soft "c"? Are you crazy? How about that "k" that is already the hard c sound? It should be "kat" and "kar". And it only goes downhill from there (or their?!?).

We should clean it up someday. But we'll probably end up with LOL-WTF-speak.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Macabre. Why do you need two silent letters?

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Blame the French.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Might start an argument but:
GIF -> GHIF

[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

It’s actually pronounced “JIF”

It stands for the Jraphics Interchange Format

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Giraffics? 🦒

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"Arkansas" and "Kansas" are both from the Osage language, but the former passed through French on its way to English.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

It's aluminium you stupid Americans.

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

You and I pronounce 'quay' very differently.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

I just wish we spelled things in a more German-'esk' fashion. They use K more appropriately. Examples such as "panik" and "akkordeon" for accordion. I find their spelling to be more straightforward and sensical.

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Thou shalt spell the word "Pheonix" P-H-E-O-N-I-X, not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wednesday to Windsday or Wensday.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Though shall now be spelled: Tho.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Aisle should become something like ile.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Oh boy, a word wouldn't be enough.

I would make English as consistent as Spanish is regarding phonetical consistency, or even more.

Oh, you have never seen this word ever before and you don't know how to pronounce it? No worries, these universal rules will allow you just get it right, because letters always sound the same!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Spanish regarding phonetical consistency”

Checking in from Oaxaca

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I think the main issue with this is that pronunciation changes over time, in addition to varying by area. So if we keep changing the spelling, written works will became unreadable faster.

But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

All those words that are pronounce the same but have completely different meanings. Particularly the common words.

To two too

No know

Their there

By buy bye

Then there there ones spelt the same but two different meanings and silent letters to even be better.

Go right, you're right.

Didn't know how messed up English spelling/pronunciation is till I started to learn Spanish and nearly every word is pronounced exactly as spelled.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

By buy bye

N'SYNC intensifies

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Segue
I always trip over that one and start reading it as French.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Highpurrbolley.

I pronounced it hyper-bowl in my head for a loooong time until I had to say it out loud one time and got laughed at.

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The pronunciation already matches the spelling!

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February. (US pronunciation)

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Arkansaw.

IF KANSAS IS PRONOUNCED "KANSAS"
THEN WHY ISN'T ARKANSAS PRONOUNCED "ARKANSAS"

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