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?

  • GeekFTW
    1•10 months ago

    Nesscary

    …Neccisary

    …Neseccary

    Fuck it, it’s now “Nesisary”

  • guyrocket
    0•10 months ago

    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.

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
      1•10 months ago

      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”.