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?
I also think Colonel needs to be changed
Recognise. There is a G in it but everyone pronounces it Reckonise. They are actually 2 totally different words so this isn’t really what you meant but I hate that people don’t prounce the letter G.
I am deffinetly picking this one.
Arkinsaw
I just say Arc-Kansas
It’s the pirate Kansas.
2010 Arkansas Code Title 1 - General Provisions Chapter 4 - State Symbols, Motto, Etc § 1-4-105 - Pronunciation of state name.
Be it therefore resolved by both houses of the General Assembly, that the only true pronunciation of the name of the state, in the opinion of this body, is that received by the French from the native Indians and committed to writing in the French word representing the sound. It should be pronounced in three (3) syllables, with the final “s” silent, the “a” in each syllable with the Italian sound, and the accent on the first and last syllables. The pronunciation with the accent on the second syllable with the sound of “a” in “man” and the sounding of the terminal “s” is an innovation to be discouraged.
“Arkansas” and “Kansas” are both from the Osage language, but the former passed through French on its way to English.
i’m from somewhere in europe and always wondered why you guys would pronounce those two so different!
America has a lot of place names that come from Native American / First Nations languages; but they also come via different European languages.
And some of those names are actually words that refer to a different Native group. “Arkansas” and “Kansas” are from the Osage word for the Quapaw people. The name of the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho is a translation of the name that Plains people used to refer to the Shoshone: they were the “snake people” and that wasn’t a compliment.
In Spanish they do rhyme and their endings are pronounced the exact same, as in Kansas. I was greatly puzzled when I discovered that the French managed to mangle the name Arkansas that badly back in the day
I’ve heard that, but “Ar Kan Saw” is nothing like how a French person would pronounce “Arkansas”
That is interesting. Do you have a source?
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”.
The - > Thu
Nesscary
…Neccisary
…Neseccary
Fuck it, it’s now “Nesisary”
Nesree
Can never remember how to spell this absolute fuckery of a word. I concur.
English is my second language, but I’ve always remembered it by “one cardigan, two socks” necessary
That’s so weird. I’m dyslexic and all but this word is very much common sense for me. Maybe because I’m a polyglot and in Italian it’s necessario?
Necessary? I would have never thought of any of those weird spellings. It’s spelled like it’s said lol.
That’s a bit unesesary
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’
Totally understandable, one of a handful of English words that I both know are spelled “wrongL and also have to put conscious thought into spelling before I write it.
Ironicly, “conshus” one such candidate for me.
“Needed”
Required
Do the needful.
Necessary is literally spelt how it’s pronounced though.
spelt how it’s pronounced though
I’m not sure you meant this as a joke but it is funny.
Learning yet another irregular pronunciation because some N-hundred years ago their majesty Shithead von Cunt wanted to sound fancy and everyone just played along is not funny.
cries, not knowing how to properly pronounce most English words
Quinoa
keen wa
garunteed
Cough
First of all, you want to replace the way “coronel” is pronounced to match the spelling, not the other way around.
Second, I’d do “bass” and kill two birds right there and then.
The fish can keep the spelling, but the low pitched sound needs to change.
Drop the bayz!
wierd.
Segue
I always trip over that one and start reading it as French.The now-defunct electric scooter company spelled it as it should be, Segway.
Seg-Yoo
That’s how my coworkers were pronouncing it, til I pointed out… Who knew how long that was going for, lol
I just learned last month I’ve been doing the same thing and mispronouncing it for over three decades. But it’s Italian!
Problem is that when you write it as pronounced, it becomes segway. Which just makes me think of those two-wheeled scooter thingies.
In the uncut version of Romeo and Juliet, there was a vague segue to a Montague tongue.
tongue, there’s another fucker, I tells ya
Wednesday to Windsday or Wensday.
ask aks ax
Indict, because it doesn’t rhyme with verdict.
I’m actually changing the pronunciation, not the spelling. I like saying “in dictation” without the “-ation” part.