Old Spelling, New Spelling

Settee =set tea

Aquire = Achoir

ACCENTUATE - Axe sent you eight

Placebo - Please see Bo

United - You Knighted

Scribbles

ACCENTUATE - Axe sent you eight

brilliant!

Matricide - Mattress Eyed

DEPARTED - Deep art Ted

Chest of drawers - Chester draws

Onomatopoeia - On a mat a peer

Mysogeny - Miss, oh Jenny

MYSTERY - Mister Ree

Focaccia - Foe Catch Year

SkippyO

Focaccia - Foe Catch Year

That’s the repeatable version! 🤣🤣🤣

Momentary - Moe meant Terry

Ciabatta - Cheer Batter (although I don't really like cricket)

gulligranny Good one.

I tried to think of a word using bowler and the best I could come up with was:- Tombola - Tom, bowler

I am sure there are better ones out there.

Verisimilitude - Very Similar Chewed

Negotiate - Knee Go She Eight

If you transcribe fortitude as FortyChewed, you aren't pronouncing fortitude correctly. There’s no
‘ch’ sound in it. It’s FortyTewd.

Champagne ~ Sham Pain.

Grandma70s

If you transcribe fortitude as FortyChewed, you aren't pronouncing fortitude correctly. There’s no
‘ch’ sound in it. It’s FortyTewd.

I did suggest the revised spelling should closely resemble its British English pronunciation and chewed would then sound like most Brits would say the -tude part of fortitude. I agree that an American accent would be different again.

Nautical - Gnaw Tickle

SkippyO

Grandma70s

If you transcribe fortitude as FortyChewed, you aren't pronouncing fortitude correctly. There’s no
‘ch’ sound in it. It’s FortyTewd.

I did suggest the revised spelling should closely resemble its British English pronunciation and chewed would then sound like most Brits would say the -tude part of fortitude. I agree that an American accent would be different again.

Nautical - Gnaw Tickle

I was talking about British English, too! Forty Chewed would be very poor pronunciation,. Do you really think most British people would use that pronunciation? Well, you may be right. There’s a lot of lazy speech about. As Professor Higgins says in My Fair Lady, “Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”.

Testicle - Test Tickle