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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[โ€“] merc 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think autocorrect butchered that one, cousin.

[โ€“] merc 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Psoriasis. Eczema. Emphysema.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Epitome

Scythe

Jewelry

Iron

Cologne

Receipt

CHARCUTERIE, what a fucking stupid word

Realtor. My wife still says "Real-uh-ter"

Zealot (think "Zellers ๐Ÿ") I'm tired of people pronouncing my username as "Zee-Lot"

-I know there's more that piss me off, I'll be back

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Tough though thought....and knife know etc

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rendezvous. Get the fuck outta here, you look like rendezzvuss.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I am deffinetly picking this one.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Choir .. how would you spell it? Quier?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also think Colonel needs to be changed

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

apparently ยป apparantly

and all other "parent" words, like transparent and so on

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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