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Tbf, these spellings make more sense than the actual spelling. How tf is Lasagna pronounced lasanya? Fuck you romance languages.
Bold of an English speaker to accuse any other language of unpredictable spelling...
Funnily, Italian is almost completely phonemic, meaning it's trivial to both spell and read words if you know the rules. English can only dream of that.
As an Italian, it took me a while to understand things like spelling competitions in American movies...
As a Hungarian, me too. We spell everything exactly as we write it.
Edit: the reply is right, of course we pronounce everything as we write it.
I, uh... um, yeah. I would hope that you do. (I assume you mean you spell exactly as you speak lol)
But do you pronounce everything as you speak it? /s
Right. 'Lasagna' in particular is spelt exactly like it's pronounced in Italian.
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.
My dad used to say ghoti is pronounced fish.
GH as in rough
O as in women
TI as in ration
... Or it's completely silent. Like, the whole word.
GH as in although
O as in people
T as in ballet
I as in business
I wish I was named Tony now. I wish we all were named Tony.
Personally, I think it's really entertaining to say la-sag-na and see who cringes
That's my internal monologue so that I can remember how it's spelled.
gnin Italian is consistently pronounced likeñin Spanish.But with less flair
Don't start me with things like eye. No chance to spell that correctly if you do not know the word - just random conglomerate of letters.