this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023

237 points (93.4% liked)

Asklemmy

43962 readers

1413 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

237

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 1 year ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

392 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

(page 4) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Cough

[–] ProvokedGamer@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lasagna, now pronounced how it looks!

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"next, what your gonna do is...."

NOW.

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] MrJukes@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Blood. Looks like wood but you would be wrong.

load more comments (4 replies)

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

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] trexd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

garunteed

[–] Poseidon2023@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago

Too shall now be spelled to

[–] fred@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't fuck with it. The road to hell is paved with good intentions

[–] Lantech@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Manure

ma-newer

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Laff

[–] TheMagicalTimonini@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like I would much prefer the ability to change the way a word is pronounced to match the way it is written.

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments