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?

    • ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
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      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.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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      Some of the low hanging fruit would just be to pick one pronunciation of “oo” and stick with it:

      • book
      • blood
      • floor
      • brooch
      • boot

      The problem is that English has far more vowel sounds than vowels. And that’s without even having certain sounds that are common in other languages like “ü”.