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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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[โ€“] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[โ€“] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] fushuan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

and that word is SIN!

[โ€“] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Geoff is angrily waiting to speak

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

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

The same ones who did sugar.