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

ericbomb@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 237 points –

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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Sean would like a word..

Whenever I say Sean Bean I pronounce "Sean" like you would pronounce "Bean" and "Bean" like "Sean"

So I call him Seen Bawn and it's 100% grammatically correct

Sean is borrowed from Irish where that is the normal vowel pronunciation, if you correctly include the accent: Seán