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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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Nesscary

    ...Neccisary

    .......Neseccary

    Fuck it, it's now "Nesisary"

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Macabre. Why do you need two silent letters?

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Might start an argument but:
    GIF -> GHIF

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (22 children)

    It's aluminium you stupid Americans.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Wednesday to Windsday or Wensday.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Though shall now be spelled: Tho.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Aisle should become something like ile.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    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!

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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    Arkansaw.

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

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    February. (US pronunciation)

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