# Words that need a spelling change
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432 "2006-01-04T18:39:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/1 "2006-01-04T18:39:39Z")
SKWIRL is my first choice. God how I hate its current spelling.
Skwirl, please!
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### Author:  [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/2 "2006-01-04T18:44:05Z")
Misled.
I don’t have any better suggestions, but I still read it as “myzuld” every single time. Maybe a hyphen would help?
Mis-led?
Wrong, but helpful.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/3 "2006-01-04T18:45:37Z")
Ghoti
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/4 "2006-01-04T18:48:31Z")
> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Ghoti
or cut bait
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/5 "2006-01-04T18:49:31Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> or cut bait
with baited breath
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/6 "2006-01-04T18:51:04Z")
kat fud
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/7 "2006-01-04T18:52:15Z")
Whensday.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/8 "2006-01-04T18:52:18Z")
kut rat drug stow
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/9 "2006-01-04T18:52:29Z")
Queue.
Too many _ue_’s in my opinion. Of course then it may be “Que??”, but still better than original.
Also, “Quay”. It’s pronounced “Kay” or sometimes “Key”. So wtf is with the “Qu”?
Don’t get me started on “colonel”.
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### Author:  [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/10 "2006-01-04T19:04:07Z")
I thought quay was pronounced kway.
Thoroughly is my vote for a word that needs simplification of spelling.
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### Author:  [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/11 "2006-01-04T19:06:59Z")
Funetik.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/12 "2006-01-04T19:53:30Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> Whensday.
Nah, put it back to Woden’s Day.
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### Author:  [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/13 "2006-01-04T20:01:41Z")
Skool, injunear.
kerb, tyre (whoops the Aussies got it right)
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/14 "2006-01-04T20:50:12Z")
Longeray.
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### Author:  [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/15 "2006-01-04T21:02:26Z")
newcular
Ow OW stop hitting me!
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/16 "2006-01-04T21:25:40Z")
pwned!!!
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### Author:  [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/17 "2006-01-04T22:04:21Z")
All words starting in acq-- should be spelled instead as accq-- (accquire, accquit), because…uh…that’s how I always mis-spell them.
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### Author:  [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/18 "2006-01-04T22:31:33Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#):
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> Queue.
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> Too many _ue_’s in my opinion. Of course then it may be “Que??”, but still better than original.
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> Also, “Quay”. It’s pronounced “Kay” or sometimes “Key”. So wtf is with the “Qu”?
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> Don’t get me started on “colonel”.
teeny, tiny hijack:
I was in a play a few years ago where I had the line, “He’s a colonial.” At the first few rehersals, I read the line as “He’s a colonel.” It took a few days before someone realized we’d all been reading the script wrong, and the character was saying “colonial.”
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### Author:  [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/19 "2006-01-04T22:40:40Z")
Since I’m one of the only people I know that pronounces February the way it’s supposed to be pronounced (i.e. Feb-ru-ary), maybe it needs to be changed to Febuary.
Not.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-need-a-spelling-change/338432/20 "2006-01-04T22:47:41Z")
All words under that damned “i before e” bullshit.
Believe = beleeve
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