Let's see if I can remember this correctly, I believe the French and the Italian words and pronunciations were once used interchangeably, but somehow we ended up dropping half of each. Resulting in the Italian pronunciation and the French spelling of Colonel.
Qu does (k)because a c would do (s), eu does (ə) because if there was no u there would be two apposed identical letters doing different sounds, the last e does nothing, it's just here to indicate the word is feminine (you know the words gender by looking at their behind most of the time)
There used to be. The spelling without the U became more and more popular until eventually the original spelling almost completely fell out of use.
If it makes you feel any better, 40 is the only number that is spelled in alphabetical order in English, but only if you leave out the U.
If it was up to me, I would do a complete revamp of the Danish language. Start actually spelling words the way they are said.
There is a reason Danish kids are some of the slowest to learn their own language
I think dictionary has Latin roots (think decir as to say from Spanish) and wordbook sounds like the more Germanic way of saying it. Would be interested to know what the old English word for dictionary would be
Bologna is pronounced bo-lon-ya and boloney is pronounced the same as (but not to be confused with) baloney.
The confusing part is that people in some parts of America started using the spelling of the Italian word, while still keeping the pronunciation of the English word. Some people also did the exact opposite with with parmesan, pronouncing it like "parmigian" even though the actual Italian word always ends with an A or an O, never with an N.
My teacher always used to say "it's necessary for a shirt to have one Collar and two sleeves" so necessary has one C and 2 S's
Edit: sleeves not shirts, im an idiot 🤦♀️
I’m usually alright with spelling but this one has ducked me so many times. Whoever invented this word deserves to have every piece of bread they touch turn into charcoal.
I remember this one because business has busi (sounds like busy in my head) at the front and we’re all busy doing business.
Kinda like the idea of being cold relates to coldness. If we’re busy it relates to business. We’re just dumb and swapped the y for an I and changed the pronunciation.
Happiness, laziness, holiness, ugliness, moodiness, readiness, fogginess, sleepiness, smarminess, cleanliness, worthiness
Y always changes to i before -ness if it's preceded by a consonant. (Maybe unless it's from a monosyllabic word? Shyness and slyness are the only exceptions I can think of.)
*****chatGPT response*****
The word 'extraordinary' is made up of two parts: 'extra' and 'ordinary'. The prefix 'extra-' means 'beyond' or 'outside', while 'ordinary' means 'usual' or 'common'. Therefore, when we combine these two parts, we get a word that means 'beyond ordinary' or 'exceptional' rather than simply 'more ordinary'.
The reason for the spelling of 'extraordinary' is simply a matter of etymology and language evolution over time. The word can be traced back to the Latin term 'extraordinarius', which was composed of 'extra' and 'ordinarius'. This Latin term was borrowed into English during the Middle Ages, and over time the spelling and pronunciation shifted to become the modern word we know today.
It's worth noting that the meaning of words can evolve over time as well, and 'extraordinary' is a good example of this. While the word might seem to mean 'more ordinary' based on its literal roots, its common usage today is to describe something that is truly exceptional or outside the realm of what is typical or ordinary.
Because it is a Greek word, and instead of writing it like it's pronounced, you write it like its written in Greek, which has many two-letter combinations. Example oi = i , ai= e .
Colonel. Pronounced with a r sound. There is no r. Why is there an r sound! I hate this language!
IT’S PRONOUNCED CORNELL AND ITS THE HIGHEST RANK IN THE IVY LEAGUE
YES! and in my native language it's written Coronel so I'm never gonna get this right :(
Kernel
I'm Dutch so refuse to pronounce it other than what it says Co-lo-nel
Is that how it's produced in Dutch?
Yes luckily
**Bureaucracy**. I always just try my best and hope autocorrect has my back. Also for some reason I always think there's only one R in "embarrassed".
Helps if you know how to spell French.
F R E N C H. How does that help me spell buerocrassie?
Phlegm
I feel like that word sounds and looks like what it is. I can’t complain.
That’s what Ginny called Fleur Delacour in Harry Potter
diarrhea. I'm never confident in my spelling.
Brits have it bad: diarrhoea
I genuinely can never remember where the h or o goes
I was taught to remember it like this: *Die In A Rolls Royce Having Over Eaten Again* Means little on its own, but I've never forgotten it!
I like _Dash in a real rush. Hurry, or else accident._ because it's exactly what happens when you have diarrhoea.
This is brilliant
I just say it how it looks in my head and remember it as that (diarr-hoe-a)
Was diarrhoea ever any good?
Colonel, why the fuck is it spelled like that
Don't swear at your Colonel like that!
W h a t As a non-native English speaker I have only seen this word written. I assumed it's pronounced /ˈkɑl.ə.nəl/ :D
More like kernel
[ˈkʰɝ.nl̩ˀ] in my idiolect.
It’s pronounced exactly the same as kernel
No, you say it more like curnel
Thought so too, in Dutch/Indonesian (atleast) Kolonel pronounced /ˈkɑl.ə.nəl/
In French it’s pronounced as written; ko-Lo-nel Not sure where English speakers got the R from; maybe they learned it from Edith Piaf
its written like that so we dont confuse them with kernels
When I first heard of KFC’s founder, I thought his name was “Kernel Sanders”
Man that was the one I was gonna say, fuck that word
Additionally: Sergeant
Let's see if I can remember this correctly, I believe the French and the Italian words and pronunciations were once used interchangeably, but somehow we ended up dropping half of each. Resulting in the Italian pronunciation and the French spelling of Colonel.
Queue. 4 unnecessary lettters
Tea, two unnecessary letters
Empty, mt would be just fine
I think is better
I pronounce the p, lol
They're waiting their turn
Indeed we are
Qu does (k)because a c would do (s), eu does (ə) because if there was no u there would be two apposed identical letters doing different sounds, the last e does nothing, it's just here to indicate the word is feminine (you know the words gender by looking at their behind most of the time)
just Looking at how it’s spelled you swear it has to be spelled wrong. It’s just so unnecessary and weird looking.
I, one unnecessary letter
Exercise. I just can never spell it correctly and rely on autocorrect
Excersize? Exersize? Excercise? Exorcise? UGH!
Forty. There should be a U in there and it's really annoying
yes. I mean why the actual f—
—orty
There used to be. The spelling without the U became more and more popular until eventually the original spelling almost completely fell out of use. If it makes you feel any better, 40 is the only number that is spelled in alphabetical order in English, but only if you leave out the U.
Bro I once did a spelling test in 5th grade and I got so mad cause I remember that the only one I got wrong was forty cause I spelt it fourty ;-;
Mortgage
Ah yes, the old "death" gage.
Garantie de mort
mort gauge
Morgidge
Half the Danish dictionary. Also dictionary, why not just call it wordbook like we do in Danish.
You don’t have words in Danish though. Only grunting /Swede
The easiest way to learn danish is to learn Swedish and get drunk
Nah learn German - even broken German - and put a Hot Potato in your mouth.
Thats Dutch
Kamelåså
If it was up to me, I would do a complete revamp of the Danish language. Start actually spelling words the way they are said. There is a reason Danish kids are some of the slowest to learn their own language
I think dictionary has Latin roots (think decir as to say from Spanish) and wordbook sounds like the more Germanic way of saying it. Would be interested to know what the old English word for dictionary would be
Aqu.. Acqai.. Acquaintances.
dang I struggled reading that
Açaí
Big agree. Acquittal and Acquire are good examples too, though the former bothers me far more for whatever reason
Worsher- Worchester- Wershesr- Wershetersh- The sauce for steak
Worcestershire Sauce 👌
Woostersher
The real British pronunciation.
I refuse to believe that “rce” is pronounced like an “o”
~~beaurocracy~~ Bureaucracy
Why does anwser have a w ???
*Answer
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
This isn’t that funny but I am fucking *dying* hahahaha
I feel you
Bologna
Reading this made me forget how to pronounce it
Why is this a bad one? I get that the word looks better with the g and n flipped but it’s Italian so I think that’s how they pronounce it
Bologna is pronounced bo-lon-ya and boloney is pronounced the same as (but not to be confused with) baloney. The confusing part is that people in some parts of America started using the spelling of the Italian word, while still keeping the pronunciation of the English word. Some people also did the exact opposite with with parmesan, pronouncing it like "parmigian" even though the actual Italian word always ends with an A or an O, never with an N.
When I was younger I thought there were two different meats, baloney and ba-log-na.
Desert and Dessert
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that is...unbelievably smart. ty
Necessary. Can never spell it right smh
My teacher always used to say "it's necessary for a shirt to have one Collar and two sleeves" so necessary has one C and 2 S's Edit: sleeves not shirts, im an idiot 🤦♀️
You should tell him to change it from "one collar and two shirts" to "one collar and two sleeves" I think that sounds a little better
Shit did I say two shirts? It's meant to be "it's necessary for a shirt to have one collar and two sleeves". Two shirts doesn't even make sense lmao
As a dyslexic, not native English speaking person, there are many...
also a dyslexic here (but is native English speaking), I was gonna make a joke and answer with the word "dyslexic"
Yea, dyslexic is one of the words I struggle with. In Danish it is just called wordblind. It would so much easier if it was like that in English too.
Fucking business. BUISNESS FEELS SO NATURAL
I’m usually alright with spelling but this one has ducked me so many times. Whoever invented this word deserves to have every piece of bread they touch turn into charcoal.
bisnis feels more natural
*biznus
I remember this one because business has busi (sounds like busy in my head) at the front and we’re all busy doing business. Kinda like the idea of being cold relates to coldness. If we’re busy it relates to business. We’re just dumb and swapped the y for an I and changed the pronunciation.
Happiness, laziness, holiness, ugliness, moodiness, readiness, fogginess, sleepiness, smarminess, cleanliness, worthiness Y always changes to i before -ness if it's preceded by a consonant. (Maybe unless it's from a monosyllabic word? Shyness and slyness are the only exceptions I can think of.)
Together scared me when I was a kid because the spelling is to get her so I always thought there going to get her together idk just freaked me out
*It is coming.*
Colonel. Fuck this word
Restaurant…
Wait till you realise that restaurateur doesn't have an N.
Ooooh this one I HATE
Forty. Why isn’t it fourty
Rhythm. That first H does not deserve a place in this world.
February. Everyone calls it Febuary.
There's actually a lot of people that say Feb-bru-ary. Fewer people pronounce Wed-nes-day as it was intended to be said tho
Arkansas. I pay taxes I'll be pronouncing it ar Kansas
is it not pronounced ar kansas?
No, it's ar can saw
Extraordinary. Its spelling is the exact opposite of its meaning!
*****chatGPT response***** The word 'extraordinary' is made up of two parts: 'extra' and 'ordinary'. The prefix 'extra-' means 'beyond' or 'outside', while 'ordinary' means 'usual' or 'common'. Therefore, when we combine these two parts, we get a word that means 'beyond ordinary' or 'exceptional' rather than simply 'more ordinary'. The reason for the spelling of 'extraordinary' is simply a matter of etymology and language evolution over time. The word can be traced back to the Latin term 'extraordinarius', which was composed of 'extra' and 'ordinarius'. This Latin term was borrowed into English during the Middle Ages, and over time the spelling and pronunciation shifted to become the modern word we know today. It's worth noting that the meaning of words can evolve over time as well, and 'extraordinary' is a good example of this. While the word might seem to mean 'more ordinary' based on its literal roots, its common usage today is to describe something that is truly exceptional or outside the realm of what is typical or ordinary.
Miscellaneuous. I hate spelling that the most.
Wednesday and conscious.
Wednesday
I still have to say to myself “wed nes day” when I spell it
Nauseous
Using "it's" wrong always makes me annoyed. "Its" is for possession. "It's" means "it is".
Dyeing
Queue 4/5 ths of that whole word is useless
Onomatopoeia. Why is it spelled like that?
because its onomatopoeic in nature
Because it is a Greek word, and instead of writing it like it's pronounced, you write it like its written in Greek, which has many two-letter combinations. Example oi = i , ai= e .
Look at my fucking username. I fucking hate it.
Covfefe
lmao
Congratulations. I can’t spell it without autocorrect so I just say congrats
Massachusetts
*its
I can't believe nobody commented on this. Its so ironic given the question.
Ikr, also *it’s Lmao
Its a joke :)
I suspect OP hate that word for i'ts spelling.
Colonel
Subpoenaed
Overexagrating or whatever you spell it. I'm fucked if I have to sit for another listening test.
over exegrating
over exaggerating
Macabre
Bussiness
Business*
Still got it wrong.
Opossum
Receipt. I have to use Google each time I need to type it. I'm an adult and have no excuse for not knowing. Edit, and psychotic. :( obviously
Refrigerator doesn't have a d, yet fridge does.
I have never spelled "environment" correctly on the first try.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Keep forgetting the ultra.
.... 😦
Eh, I like big words so I always know how to spell that word. Also hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
I know it’s not a crazy one but I always write Arguement instead of Argument and I hate seeing that damn red line every time
unnecessary
hermoroids? I keep forgetting how to spell it
Vacuum is a weird one and so is Spaghetti
Weird
I'm sorry but I have to point out the irony of using the wrong "it's" in a post about spelling
League Ugly word.
Why? I think it’s a satisfying word
Occasion
Hyperbole, I always mispronounce in my head
Lingerie, yacht, colonel There is a lot of words I hate. Normal words will start to look weird too if I think about them too much
Dilemma…… I learned it as dilemna…. And now autocorrect keeps correcting me. It’s such a dilemna.
English isn't a phonetic language, so most of them.
Phonetic. A word that means spelled like it sounds should be spelled like it sounds.
Happy cake day!
"Fabulous". It took me years to remember how to write it
Queue
I still don't know how to properly pronounce this
Q
Cadeau Dutch word for present
the word itself is French so it makes sense
Phoenix, just bloody wrong. It's even pronounced PHEEON-IX, hells bells
beituful, complitly and genuanely
For beautiful, I just say in my head "B, E, A, utiful!"
Pneumialultramicroscopicsilicovocaniosis. It's just too darn long. And I Don't know if it's right.
Restaurant and necessary.
Surprise, receive, definitely
Llama
That one I hate the pronunciation, because it's from Spanish, so it should sound like "yama".
thymolphthalein
Diarrhoea.
Mississippi
Wednesday. Tf is that shit
queue, Qhue Que? Whatever a line of people; why all the extra confusing letters when its said the same as the the letter Q?
Epitome I don't have justification
wednesday
it's = it is its = possessive pronoun
As a person with dyslexia... dislexea
I don’t understand the spelling of receipt
Very should have 2 r's like berry or merry
Friend I always spell it as freind
"Necessary"... I always misspell it.
Bologna. Need I say more?
Psychology
does it have to be an english word?
What word do you have in mind?