 Re: I need help finding a Word that starts Cy- and pronounced kI-
Actually, while faddish, modern "creative spelling" is no worse than many much older spellings of English proper names. Many families, moving to the States, respelled their names, but in Britain they kept the old spellings. Ben Affleck's ancestors would have spelled their name "Auchinlech" but still pronounced it "Affleck". The name "Woolfhardisworthy" is pronounced "Woolsey".
This was lampooned in the famous Monty Python sketch involving a man whose name is spelled "Raymond Luxury-Yacht" but pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove". |