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?
In this thread, a lot of folks who would use their one wish to make the language better.
But I would change “their” to be spelled “the’re” and pronounced “all’y’all’s”.
I hope I do grow up to be more like the rest of you, and make better choices, in the future.
People like you being in charge is how English got to this position in the first place!
Nesscary
…Neccisary
…Neseccary
Fuck it, it’s now “Nesisary”
“Needed”
Required
Do the needful.
That’s a bit unesesary
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
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’
Necessary? I would have never thought of any of those weird spellings. It’s spelled like it’s said lol.
It’s aluminium you stupid Americans.
Only cuz y’all changed it to that
The global sciences community decided on a name change, only one country decided to be contrary.
only one country decided to stay true to the discoverer’s chosen name
Ftfy
By that logic Uranus would be called “George’s Star”. Then the English nationalists would would get uppity about its name.
The discover generally has input, but when there’s a group of experts responsible for maintaining a list of names of things: they decide what’s right.
Out of all the examples you could’ve chosen you went with Uranus… respect.
Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all…
Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.
Platinium too?
If the entire global science community decided to: yes.
You talk about it like all scientists could ever agree to something and that it would be possible to poll every single one and properly weight their individual scientific relevance.
“pluto isn’t a dwarf planet”.
Yeah, it is.
The scientific community agrees.
Same thing.
“agrees”
Congratulations, you just found the crazy whiney dissident group of astronomers who just can’t admit they’re wrong by general consensus.
Experts arguing amongst themselves is hardly the same.
An entire country being contrary just because of national pride and arrogance is completely different.
Disagreeing with general consensus ≠ wrong
An entire country being contrary just because of national pride and arrogance is completely different.
Is it your position that all countries should have the same language regardless of their cultural history?
Also, it isn’t rooted in national pride or arrogance. Aluminum came first and was the name given by the first chemist - a British scientist - to isolate the metal. The variant aluminium came from a reviewer who changed the spelling just because he liked the sound better. Aluminum was recognized by ACS 65 years before IUPAC standardized to aluminum. IUPAC has recognized aluminum as an acceptable spelling since 1993. So yeah, the general concensus is the aluminum is okay even based on your logic because IUPAC says so.
I only know that you say it that way because Jonny Ive talked about the design of a laptop more than a decade ago. Frankly, I think you’re right.
The American spelling matches the American pronunciation, and it was one of the original variations of the word. Americans didn’t pick it out of nowhere.
That’s more akin to saying “it’s spelled aubergine, not eggplant, you stupid Americans”.
I’m aware of the origins of the different spellings of aluminum/aluminium.
I disagree that it’s two entirely different words which is the case for eggplant/aubergine that come from two different languages.
I can’t think of another example that’s better though.
wow the completely unnecessary xenophobia
edit: we really need a feature to be able to block the people who upvote objectively toxic content like this
wow the completely expected nationalism.
That doesn’t even make sense
Americans (generally) can’t take criticism from non-Americans.
Some can. Some respond with “yeah we don’t do that well” or enjoin the argument with interest and integrity.
Others start screeching about xenophobia.
Stupid foreigners.
I just wish we spelled things in a more German-‘esk’ fashion. They use K more appropriately. Examples such as “panik” and “akkordeon” for accordion. I find their spelling to be more straightforward and sensical.
German has the awesome ability to just shove words together to make new words and the language accepts it. It’s unambiguous (so I understand).
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Interview with the author here (got me to buy the book):
Panik is a whole mood.
Worcestershire
Got any wash yer sister sauce?
I pronounce it wor-chst-sher sauce. As does my friends who aren’t from London but from other parts of the UK
My London boi says Woust-er sauce.
How do you get Wor-chest-er-sher to become Woust-er? How?
I understand Wor-chst-sher you just remove some vowels in the middle.
But Wouster? You just removed the whole fucking word?? Why???
I pronounce it wor-chest-ter-shire with shire being where Frodo lives.
Idk about woust-er sauce, pretty sure that’s just dropping a syllable.
But the rest of it is because the syllables are supposed to be worce-ster-shire.
Brits do stuff like that. For example, the city Gloucester is pronounced “Gloss-ter”
Wustersherr
Here in my country we just call it Lizano
Might start an argument but:
GIF -> GHIFIt’s actually pronounced “JIF”
It stands for the Jraphics Interchange Format
Giraffics? 🦒
JIF is peanut butter
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wierd.
Just remember I before E except after C!
And when sounding in A, as in neighbor and weigh
And glacier, because… glacier.
And on weekends and holidays and all throughout May And you’ll never be right, no matter what you say!
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This poem by Jef Raskin includes several dozen exceptions:
“I before E
Except after C,
Unless pronounced A
As in ‘neighbor’ or ‘weigh’”
Education is forfeit for reinforcing such rules!
Sound a feisty reveille while eyeing the schools!
Neither will our heirs be agreeing to deceptions
Once seeing, herein, these sufficient exceptions:
We were seized by a feeling
For fleeing on the ceiling
To a leisurely meal
With Keith, Sheila, and Neil
We drank madeira, so foreign, in steins
Along with a surfeit of weird blueish wines
Being foolish, took codeine, ate ancient proteins
Therein guaranteeing these ogreish scenes
Wherein we’re canoeing to a new sovereign state
While deicing a kaleidoscope on a hot jadeite plate
And kneeing obeisance to an overseeing king
Our plebeian lips kissed his counterfeit ring.
Then we unveiled their sleight-of-hand trick
Deifying a heifer, with effect atheistic
And falling from the heights with a loud seismic crunch
We reignited the nonpareils we had heisted for lunch.
So I before E
Except after C
Unless pronounced A?
False decreeing, I say!
February. (US pronunciation)
Wednesday
I pronounce it as written
I’ve always pronounced it as written, not Febuary.
Arkansaw.
IF KANSAS IS PRONOUNCED “KANSAS”
THEN WHY ISN’T ARKANSAS PRONOUNCED “ARKANSAS”Gif
The gargantuan giraffe gallops his gigantic body to the gutter.
It is a G. It isn’t that hard.
It isn’t that hard.
A soft-G gif believer! Heretic!
Not so! I won’t go down for this!
Arkinsaw
“Arkansas” and “Kansas” are both from the Osage language, but the former passed through French on its way to English.
I’ve heard that, but “Ar Kan Saw” is nothing like how a French person would pronounce “Arkansas”
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
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”.
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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.
Comfterble
Kumfirtubble
Macabre. Why do you need two silent letters?
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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…
“queue”, 4/5 letters are silent.
Diarrhea.
The pronunciation already matches the spelling!
Starts like “diary” the journal, ends like “rhea” the bird.
Then consider the British-English version of the word, diarrhoea :)
Why the extra o?when they were transcribing it, the man speaking gagged
Cha cha cha
