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

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?

  • Tuss@lemmy.world
    61·
    1 year ago

    I pronounce it wor-chst-sher sauce. As does my friends who aren’t from London but from other parts of the UK

    My London boi says Woust-er sauce.

    How do you get Wor-chest-er-sher to become Woust-er? How?

    I understand Wor-chst-sher you just remove some vowels in the middle.

    But Wouster? You just removed the whole fucking word?? Why???

    • dvlsg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Idk about woust-er sauce, pretty sure that’s just dropping a syllable.

      But the rest of it is because the syllables are supposed to be worce-ster-shire.

    • Dr Cog@mander.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      Brits do stuff like that. For example, the city Gloucester is pronounced “Gloss-ter”