Tbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.
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Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...
Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...
As a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it.
Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.
But do you pronounce everything as you speak it? /s
I, uh... um, yeah. I would hope that you do. (I assume you mean you spell exactly as you speak lol)
Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.
My dad used to say ghoti is pronounced fish.
GH as in rough
O as in women
TI as in ration
... Or it's completely silent. Like, the whole word.
GH as in although
O as in people
T as in ballet
I as in business
Personally, I think it's really entertaining to say la-sag-na and see who cringes
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Ask the English speakers who imported words like lasagna and baguette without changing the spelling to lasanya or baget.
Worst of all, sometimes they change the spelling but only to remove the diacritics that tell you how it's supposed to be pronounced
PizSUH - SUH. LaZAnyuhZAnyuhZA.
I loves me some champaggin with my lesayna
sham pain