People like you being in charge is how English got to this position in the first place!

"Needed"

English is a second language to me, and at this point it's probably the only commonly used word I consistently mess up. It usually ends up something like 'nessecairy'

Can never remember how to spell this absolute fuckery of a word. I concur.

That’s a bit unesesary

Necessary is literally spelt how it's pronounced though.

Necessary? I would have never thought of any of those weird spellings. It's spelled like it's said lol.

Nesree

wait was it nesisary or nesusary.

nesesary? nesasary? nesysary?

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".

It's not all bad. The varied spellings of English help with visual pattern recognition and increased reading speed.

That must have already happened and we got the Geordie accent from it!

Kumfirtubble

But saying "com-fidi-ble" is so much more fun

Blame the French.

Please wait in the queue with four unpronounced letters

British English voices those letters in most accents. I think the two silent letters is just a North American thing.

Similar to herb.

Ma-carb, much better

"queue", 4/5 letters are silent.

Wait how is that pronounced? I've always read it as Mah-Ca-Burr. It's one of these words I learned through text exposure rather than English classes...

It’s actually pronounced “JIF”

It stands for the Jraphics Interchange Format

GH as in "laugh"? People'd start flame wars over whether "FIF" is the intended pronunciation...

"Arkansas" and "Kansas" are both from the Osage language, but the former passed through French on its way to English.

Brit here, I only realised a couple of years ago that the Arkansaw I heard mentioned in American TV and movies was actually the Arkansas I could see on maps. I think it was something said on Reddit, probably a thread similar to this, that was the revelation. And when I tell other Brits they're invariably similarly clueless, and quite gobsmacked. I'm not sure if anyone I've mentioned it too has said "oh yeah I knew that".

You and I pronounce 'quay' very differently.

kɛɪ 🤷

feenicks

Fenix, like the dude from StarCraft?

Dan Le Sac - sweet reference.

Oasis, just a band

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.

Re-ci-pe... yeah that's just how yoy read it.

“Spanish regarding phonetical consistency”

Checking in from Oaxaca

The only one they changed is the double l. ll to sounds like a y. But in some circles they consider that a seperate letter to the Spanish alphabet. Overall it is fairly consistent.

Even better, Spanish words are typically broken into two (or is it to or too) letter syllables.

I mean knowing romance languages makes spelling in English easy. Also knowing something about Greek and Latin. Understanding the root of a word etc makes it a lot easier.

English is pretty good (generally) at doing the same thing.

Y'all are just bringing up words that English stole from other languages.

You can use phonetics to figure out how to pronounce most words in English.

I can't help but pronounce this like Jurassic

I just learned last month I've been doing the same thing and mispronouncing it for over three decades. But it's Italian!

Seg-Yoo

That's how my coworkers were pronouncing it, til I pointed out... Who knew how long that was going for, lol

The now-defunct electric scooter company spelled it as it should be, Segway.

As someone who read a lot as a child I still find myself saying hyperbowl. I'd certainly heard the correct pronunciation but it wasn't until very late that I made the connection to the word I'd learned by reading.

Aphrodite, Hyperbole.. Greek Eta sounds like ee.

The fact that hyperbolic is pronounced like that makes it so much fucking worse

The pronunciation already matches the spelling!

Cha cha cha

Diary uh

English really lacks some throat-fricative analogue to the Greek chi (χʼ). Shoud be yaχt in the graχt. imo.

It only gets spelled correctly when it's a pseudo queue (>!sudoku!<).

But that's already pronounced how it's spelled...

Qway-Way

Bah, I always forget eth is different in IPA than how it was used in Old English.

Lawngeray definitely makes it less appealing.

I failed to read the the poem properly.

This language is just... ugh.

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If you ever have an opportunity, try to get German people to say Squirrel. It's why it was used as a shibboleth in WWII.

What do you mean? It's already written the closest to pronunciation, there's no ń sound in English really, perhaps knee is the only example

Add colonel to that. Like wtf, where are you getting the extra letters from?

Fun fact: Lieutenant literally means "placeholder."

https://www.history.navy.mil/...

There's another word that British people would like to add aswell.

Mandatory Hyperbole And Half

Well which word would you pick for that?

Do I have an alphabet for you! Ever heard of the IPA No, it's not just a beer!

You doing okay buddy?

You don't like Greek words that are spelled the way they're pronounced?

OOF Pneumonia.

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

Lincoln is a proper noun, but pneumonia is already pronounced how it's spelled.

Sean would like a word..

The same ones who did sugar.

Charcuterie is French for charcuterie.

You sick bastard I work at lowes

We should just omit those schwa letters like Apar'ntly.

kwire

Kwyre

Koar... Koir... Koair... Koayre... Egh I'm not improving it am I

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.

keen wa

We’d just abbreviate it like pxmilexokal

It's like how laughter and slaughter don't rhyme.

Might as well do food while you're at it.

And, in the other direction : lose.

It already is. gn makes a "nnya" or "nnya" sound, as seen in other words like sfolgnino or gnocchi.

Confused here. Lasagna looks like several horizontal lines with some filling in between and cheese on top. Like none of the letters that i know. Then again, it's italian, so what to do ... espanicise it?
lasaña -- there you go, that will take care of the cheese, at least.

Found Rodrick Heffley

It should be restrant

Restront

It's a fun word to say, say it with me

"poop"

The fish can keep the spelling, but the low pitched sound needs to change.

Vihikl?

Lewtenant if you’re American.

Not an English word so you need the ref. The place where alders grow.

Etobicoke

Upon googling it I found it's pronounced like this: Uh tow buh kow

So yes.

I don't really understand the problem. You want us to go back to the Latin accessorius?

XLent