Spell words how they are pronounced

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I THINK YOURE JUST MISPRONOUNCING THE WORDS...OR SOCIETY IN GENERAL...PRONUNCIATION CHANGES OVER THE YEARS.

Fewcha? Only if you’re from Bahstin.

Around where I live the last three would be more like:

Few-chure
Awe-gist
Die-minned

Gym - Jim or Jim - gym

Why is "Sean" pronounced "Shaun?" ❓❓❓

I can see the advantage to that. It would make English spelling easier to learn. Especially those words with the ough letter combination.

It's so confusing when:
"though" rhymes with "no."
"cough" rhymes with "off."
"rough" rhymes with "fluff."
"bough" rhymes with "cow."
"through" rhymes with "new."
"thought" rhymes with "not."

Whatchu talkin bout Willis?!

"Dearest creature in Creation,
Studying English pronunciation,

I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

It will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;

Tear in eye your dress you'll tear.
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,

Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it?

Just compare heart, beard and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain,
(Mind the latter, how it's written!)

Made has not the sound of bade,
Say—said, pay—paid, laid, but plaid.

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,

But be careful how you speak,
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak,

Previous, precious; fuchsia, via;
Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir,

Cloven, oven; how and low;
Script, receipt; shoe, poem, toe,

Don't you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?

Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough??

Hiccough has the sound of sup...
My advice is: GIVE IT UP!"