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Bone Apple Tea

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ask the English speakers who imported words like lasagna and baguette without changing the spelling to lasanya or baget.

Worst of all, sometimes they change the spelling but only to remove the diacritics that tell you how it's supposed to be pronounced