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A community for funny phonetic misspellings of words or phrases. Bonus points if this misspelling comprises actual words, like this community’s namesake: Bon appétit —> Bone apple tea

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[–] LogarithmicCamel@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.

[–] TommySalami@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hell, it's spelled phonetically enough for English too. "gn" making the same sound as in "gnome" will pretty much get you there.

I guess to be fair it's just not a common phoneme, and spelling can be a crapshoot in English.