After all English is not Latin....

chek instead of check
couf instead of cough
flite instead of flight
fone instead of phone
gost instead of ghost
hoo instead of who
laff instead of laugh
lite instead of light
nite instead of night
rite instead of right
site instead of sight
strait instead of straight
tite instead of tight
wat instead of what
wi instead of why
wite instead of white


No wonder people have a hard time learning English as a second language! Feel free to add to the list....

couf instead of cough


I'd go with coff




gost instead of ghost



The Dutch printers of the first English dictionaries added the 'h' as I understand it.



rite instead of right
site instead of sight
strait instead of straight



These spellings already exist but have a different meaning.  So we'd get even more confused!



laff instead of laugh



Or 'larf' depending where you come from.

After all English is not Latin....

strait instead of straight



These are two different words in the first place.

I ad a bit of a coff the uther day, it wasunt very nise.  ;D

I ad a bit of a coff the uther day, it wasunt very nise.   ;D


I am soree to heer that yoo had a coff. I am not at work today sinse I didint get enuff sleep last nite and mi Ant Flo is here in ful swing.

"How these words should be spelt"
Oa, and make that "shood".

I ad a bit of a coff the uther day, it wasunt very nise.   ;D
It isn't the cough that carries you off, its the coffin they carry you off in.

Good list there, Mercat. ;)

How about Peepul instead of People?

chek instead of check
coff instead of cough
flyt instead of flight
fone instead of phone
gost instead of ghost
hoo instead of who
larf instead of laugh
lyt instead of light
nyt instead of night
ryt instead of right
syt instead of sight
strayt instead of straight
tyt instead of tight
wot instead of what
wy instead of why
wyt instead of white

chek instead of check
coff instead of cough
flyt instead of flight
fone instead of phone
gost instead of ghost
hoo instead of who
larf instead of laugh
lyt instead of light
nyt instead of night
ryt instead of right
syt instead of sight
strayt instead of straight
tyt instead of tight
wot instead of what
wy instead of why
wyt instead of white


I chekd if mi flyt was layt.
I coffd on tha fone wen I sor a gost hoo larfd.
Turn on tha lyt, it iz nyt-tym.

I LIKE the spelling "ghost" over "gost".. something about the gh- beginning I just like...

chek instead of check
coff instead of cough
flyt instead of flight
fone instead of phone
gost instead of ghost
hoo instead of who
larf instead of laugh
lyt instead of light
nyt instead of night
ryt instead of right
syt instead of sight
strayt instead of straight
tyt instead of tight
wot instead of what
wy instead of why
wyt instead of white


I chekd to see if gosts wur foloin me. My fone laffd wen it waz lyt. Nyt-tym waz lyt, I sor. Wot tyt tyts I had, I sor. I tuk em off an went strayt to bed.

How about a spinoff thread as to how certain words should be pronounced? I wonder if we should start one of those...

For example, I think the word "steak" should be pronounced "steek", since "steal" and "steam" are pronounced "steel" and "steem" respectively. ::)

Why is "colonel" pronounced like "kernel"? Why don't we say it "co-LOAN-el" or something like that?

I am soree to heer that yoo had a coff. I am not at work today sinse I didint get enuff sleep last nite and mi Ant Flo is here in ful swing.


I feel yoo! Ant Flo has been at my howse fur neerly ate days, the byatch won't leeve!!!!

After all English is not Latin....

chek instead of check
couf instead of cough
flite instead of flight
fone instead of phone
gost instead of ghost
hoo instead of who
laff instead of laugh
lite instead of light
nite instead of night
rite instead of right
site instead of sight
strait instead of straight
tite instead of tight
wat instead of what
wi instead of why
wite instead of white


Wow, this is kinda what me and my mate spent the duration of an IT lesson today doing! Coz we were bored, we typed out subtitles for eachother, so I said something and he typed what he heard/how I said it. It was funny, coz we were coming out with things like
"Zahabba mennnmff 'puter y'burk" instead off "Get the hell off my computer your burk". Of course, our little game was far more important than the coursework we were supposed to be getting on with!  ;D

I feel yoo! Ant Flo has been at my howse fur neerly ate days, the byatch won't leeve!!!!


Ant Flos on her way heer nekst week.  im triin tu fend off th byatch!

O, BTW, I think it shud be wut insted uv wat or wot....  ;D

How about a spinoff thread as to how certain words should be pronounced? I wonder if we should start one of those...

For example, I think the word "steak" should be pronounced "steek", since "steal" and "steam" are pronounced "steel" and "steem" respectively. ::)

Why is "colonel" pronounced like "kernel"? Why don't we say it "co-LOAN-el" or something like that?


or that actor called Sean Bean or is it Shorn Born or Seen Bean??  ::)

or that actor called Sean Bean or is it Shorn Born or Seen Bean??   ::)
Been Shorn?

or that actor called Sean Bean or is it Shorn Born or Seen Bean?? ::)

Yeah...I've always wondered why the name Sean is pronounced like "Shawn" ::) ???