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?
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.
People like you being in charge is how English got to this position in the first place!
Your rite, and I regret my choices.
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.
Panik is a whole mood.
Comfterble
Kumfirtubble
But saying “com-fidi-ble” is so much more fun
Arkinsaw
“Arkansas” and “Kansas” are both from the Osage language, but the former passed through French on its way to English.
I’ve heard that, but “Ar Kan Saw” is nothing like how a French person would pronounce “Arkansas”
Ressepee
I like this one because I instantly knew what word it was despite it having a brand new spelling. Almost like letters should have meanings.
English isn’t my native language. I thought for years (and I’m talking of 10+) it would be pronounced “ree-sipe”.
Re-ci-pe… yeah that’s just how yoy read it.
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.
feenicks
Fenix, like the dude from StarCraft?
Removed by mod
Oasis, just a band
Dan Le Sac - sweet reference.
Since Queue has already been posted: Quay. Now spelled Kee.
Worcestershire
I pronounce it wor-chst-sher sauce. As does my friends who aren’t from London but from other parts of the UK
My London boi says Woust-er sauce.
How do you get Wor-chest-er-sher to become Woust-er? How?
I understand Wor-chst-sher you just remove some vowels in the middle.
But Wouster? You just removed the whole fucking word?? Why???
Idk about woust-er sauce, pretty sure that’s just dropping a syllable.
But the rest of it is because the syllables are supposed to be worce-ster-shire.
Wustersherr
Aisle should become something like ile.
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.
Not knot naught
By buy bye
N’SYNC intensifies
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.
Yeees I love twenty one pilots personally, but when they started using “ø” I really wanted it to be pronounced as part of the name so they could hear how ridiculous it sounds
Jraphics
Segue
I always trip over that one and start reading it as French.The now-defunct electric scooter company spelled it as it should be, Segway.
Seg-Yoo
That’s how my coworkers were pronouncing it, til I pointed out… Who knew how long that was going for, lol
Diarrhea.
Cha cha cha
Oooohhhh that took me back
Diary uh
