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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

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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?

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd spell cache as cache so Australians know it's pronounced like "cash" not like "kaysch".

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think autocorrect butchered that one, cousin.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Nope, cache should be spelled cache so people know it's pronounced as cache.

[–] Ixoid@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I refuse to pronounce it that way. But at least "kaysch" sounds better than "cash-ay"

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure it sounds any better than cayshe, but cash-ay is very wrong. There is also a French word "cachet" which gives us the English word "cachet" which is pronounced "cash-ay" similar to how the French word "cache" gives us the English word "cache", but there's no reason to pronounce cache as cachet.

[–] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll accept that, only as long as Americans learn that route is pronounced "root", not "rout".

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

... I pronounce route as root. But I pronounce rerouted like rout. Huh.