You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?

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.

Nesscary

...Neccisary

.......Neseccary

Fuck it, it's now "Nesisary"

English orthography is awful. Hard "c" AND soft "c"? Are you crazy? How about that "k" that is already the hard c sound? It should be "kat" and "kar". And it only goes downhill from there (or their?!?).

We should clean it up someday. But we'll probably end up with LOL-WTF-speak.

Macabre. Why do you need two silent letters?

It's aluminium you stupid Americans.

Comfterble

Might start an argument but:
GIF -> GHIF

Arkinsaw

Since Queue has already been posted: Quay. Now spelled Kee.

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.

Thou shalt spell the word "Pheonix" P-H-E-O-N-I-X, not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you.

Worcestershire

Aisle should become something like ile.

Ressepee

Jraphics

Though shall now be spelled: Tho.

Wednesday to Windsday or Wensday.

Highpurrbolley.

I pronounced it hyper-bowl in my head for a loooong time until I had to say it out loud one time and got laughed at.

I think the main issue with this is that pronunciation changes over time, in addition to varying by area. So if we keep changing the spelling, written works will became unreadable faster.

But I would suggest that any band names that use umlauts/foreign letters should be pronounced accordingly.

Segue
I always trip over that one and start reading it as French.

Gif

Diarrhea.

February. (US pronunciation)

Arkansaw.

IF KANSAS IS PRONOUNCED "KANSAS"
THEN WHY ISN'T ARKANSAS PRONOUNCED "ARKANSAS"

wierd.

Werk.

Work is not how people pronounce it.

Easy: Bologna

Ghoti

Yacht. Yot.

queue

the article 'the' - ðə

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

Fish as Ghoti

I’m honestly amazed “alot” hasn’t been made an acceptable spelling of “a lot” by now.

Keesh

There were so many that bothered me but now, when called out, I can only think of a few...

Lingerie

Miscellaneous

Subpoena

Epitome

Scythe

Jewelry

Iron

Cologne

Receipt

CHARCUTERIE, what a fucking stupid word

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

Zealot (think "Zellers 🍁") I'm tired of people pronouncing my username as "Zee-Lot"

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

Queue.

Oh man the various English' pronunciashuns ...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SfhKldRKmo8

Worcestershire sauce

Caulk.

Too shall now be spelled to

Lieutenant (leftenant)

Lasagna, now pronounced how it looks!

Psoriasis. Eczema. Emphysema.

apparently » apparantly

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

Salmon as Samon

Restaurant.

Can't spell it without spell check

Exercise as Exersize

Lincoln

Pneumonia

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

Tough though thought....and knife know etc

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

Cough

Lieutenant should be changed to Leftenant while we’re at it.

I'd change "I" to "pxmipexokal" just to screw over everyone's typing speed.

Choir .. how would you spell it? Quier?

Quinoa

Subtle

I also think Colonel needs to be changed

I am deffinetly picking this one.

"separate" to "seperate"

Fone

Blood. Looks like wood but you would be wrong.

Yosemite to Yos-e-mite.

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.

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

Lieutenant → Lefttennet

Laff

Seems like that absolute lot here are just American Vs British pronunciation, and for me, who learned the British version make 0 sense.

Manure

ma-newer

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

garunteed

Draught. Seems we've already respelt it as "draft".

Salmon

Etobicoke. Can that count?

ask aks ax

Vehicle

Knight just got the lulz

Conner (sauce: ostreliens)

excellent

Accessoires

That may actually be the Dutch or maybe Swedish spelling. They're all so close but slightly different that I hope auto-correct deals with it.

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.

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.

The - > Thu

Facade -> visade