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"

Macabre. Why do you need two silent letters?

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.

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.

Jraphics

Wednesday to Windsday or Wensday.

Though shall now be spelled: Tho.

Ressepee

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.

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

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.

Gif

Diarrhea.

February. (US pronunciation)

wierd.

Werk.

Work is not how people pronounce it.

Arkansaw.

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

Easy: Bologna

Ghoti

queue

the article 'the' - ðə

Yacht. Yot.

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

Fish as Ghoti

Keesh

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

Lingerie

Miscellaneous

Subpoena

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

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

Worcestershire sauce

Queue.

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

Caulk.

Lasagna, now pronounced how it looks!

Too shall now be spelled to

Lieutenant (leftenant)

Restaurant.

Can't spell it without spell check

apparently » apparantly

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

Psoriasis. Eczema. Emphysema.

Exercise as Exersize

Lincoln

Pneumonia

Salmon as Samon

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

Quinoa

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

Cough

Choir .. how would you spell it? Quier?

Subtle

I also think Colonel needs to be changed

Tough though thought....and knife know etc

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

I am deffinetly picking this one.

"separate" to "seperate"

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

Blood. Looks like wood but you would be wrong.

Fone

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

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

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.

Lieutenant → Lefttennet

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

Yosemite to Yos-e-mite.

Manure

ma-newer

garunteed

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

Laff

ask aks ax

Knight just got the lulz

Salmon

Vehicle

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.

The - > Thu

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.

Conner (sauce: ostreliens)

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.

excellent

Facade -> visade