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?

Comfterble

Might start an argument but:
GIF -> GHIF

Arkinsaw

It's aluminium you stupid Americans.

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.

Worcestershire

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.

Wednesday to Windsday or Wensday.

Ressepee

Aisle should become something like ile.

Though shall now be spelled: Tho.

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.

All those words that are pronounce the same but have completely different meanings. Particularly the common words.

To two too

No know

Their there

By buy bye

Then there there ones spelt the same but two different meanings and silent letters to even be better.

Go right, you're right.

Didn't know how messed up English spelling/pronunciation is till I started to learn Spanish and nearly every word is pronounced exactly as spelled.

Oh boy, a word wouldn't be enough.

I would make English as consistent as Spanish is regarding phonetical consistency, or even more.

Oh, you have never seen this word ever before and you don't know how to pronounce it? No worries, these universal rules will allow you just get it right, because letters always sound the same!

Jraphics

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

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.

Gif

wierd.

Ghoti

Diarrhea.

February. (US pronunciation)

the article 'the' - ðə

Yacht. Yot.

Arkansaw.

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

queue

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

Lingerie

Miscellaneous

Subpoena

Fish as Ghoti

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

Werk.

Work is not how people pronounce it.

Queue.

Skwirl because now one knows how to spell squirrel.thank you auto-correct.

Easy: Bologna

Keesh

Worcestershire sauce

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

Lieutenant (leftenant)

Psoriasis. Eczema. Emphysema.

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

Lincoln

Pneumonia

Fucking HORS D'OEUVRES, man. Such a stupidly French word. Honestly any French word used commonly in English. So many useless fucking vowels.

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

Caulk.

"Sure". For crying out loud. Who came up with this.

Tough though thought....and knife know etc

I am deffinetly picking this one.

Choir .. how would you spell it? Quier?

Quinoa

apparently » apparantly

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

I also think Colonel needs to be changed

Salmon as Samon

Subtle

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

Cough

"separate" to "seperate"

Blood. Looks like wood but you would be wrong.

Fone

"next, what your gonna do is...."

NOW.

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

Restaurant.

Can't spell it without spell check

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

Lasagna, now pronounced how it looks!

Lieutenant → Lefttennet

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

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

Too shall now be spelled to

Laff

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.

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".

Bourgeoisie

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

Vehicle

Knight just got the lulz

Salmon

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.

Permanently Deleted

Exercise as Exersize

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.

The - > Thu

Comfortable

Conner (sauce: ostreliens)

Quay pronounced key

Phone at anything with a ph sound for that matter.

Etobicoke. Can that count?

ask aks ax

excellent

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.

Facade -> visade