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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 2 years ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world 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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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Lincoln

Pneumonia

[–] ericbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

OOF Pneumonia.

Like, what a cursed word. How would you even spell that? Nuhmownyuh?

[–] MrJukes@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

Newmoanyuh

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[–] Boops@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Psoriasis. Eczema. Emphysema.

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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Sure". For crying out loud. Who came up with this.

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

The same ones who did sugar.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Sean would like a word..

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whenever I say Sean Bean I pronounce "Sean" like you would pronounce "Bean" and "Bean" like "Sean"

So I call him Seen Bawn and it's 100% grammatically correct

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[–] Nurloc@feddit.nu 5 points 2 years ago

Tough though thought....and knife know etc

[–] hobbes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Subtle

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

apparently » apparantly

and all other "parent" words, like transparent and so on

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[–] PopcornPlayaa_@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also think Colonel needs to be changed

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[–] KidsTryThisAtHome@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Rendezvous. Get the fuck outta here, you look like rendezzvuss.

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[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Salmon as Samon

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[–] matti@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

I am deffinetly picking this one.

[–] ShaolinRaiden@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Quinoa

[–] nadiaraven@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This one has the correct pronunciation in Spanish, because quinoa is from South America. Despite having pronounced this incorrectly when I first heard about it, I'd like to keep this spelling, because Spanish spelling is so much more consistent than English.

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[–] sacredbirdman@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Choir .. how would you spell it? Quier?

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[–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s two, but I’m just gonna swap ‘sweat’ and ‘sweet’ spellings.

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[–] XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Fone

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd change "I" to "pxmipexokal" just to screw over everyone's typing speed.

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