Words that are not spelled phonetically

[nq:1]Has anyone compiled a list of words in American English that are not spelled phonetically? One of my favorites is "gunwale" which is pronounced "gunnel". Thank you in advance for all replies.[/nq]
Don't know about a list. Maybe you can start one with the replies. I expect you will have to differentiate AmE from BrE, and internationalE from regional. Boat and military terminology for many

[nq:2]Has anyone compiled a list of words in American English ... is pronounced "gunnel". Thank you in advance for all replies.[/nq]
[nq:1]Don't know about a list. Maybe you can start one with the replies. I expect you will have to differentiate ... it, observing all the rules for barring words would be so cumbersome as to make your list impossible to complete.[/nq]
There is one particular

[nq:1]Has anyone compiled a list of words in American English that are not spelled phonetically?[/nq]
A far easier task would be to compile a list of American English words that ARE spelled phonetically.

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[nq:1]Has anyone compiled a list of words in American English that are not spelled phonetically? One of my favorites is "gunwale" which is pronounced "gunnel". Thank you in advance for all replies.[/nq]
No one has yet asked you an important question: What do you mean by a word being "spelled phonetically"? There are several possible answers, and a list such as you are proposing would depend up

[nq:1]Has anyone compiled a list of words in American English that are not spelled phonetically? One of my favorites is "gunwale" which is pronounced "gunnel". Thank you in advance for all replies.[/nq]
All and none.
Modern American spelling is how it is because it is supposed to denote an Elizabethan English pronunciation and sometimes even older("cough").
On the other hand, all words

[nq:1]Thirdly, English is more phonetic that it seems, if you establish some basic rules, text as the primary key for the language, and speech as a rough way of alluding to the words... ...I.e.[/nq]
By which, no doubt, you mean "e.g."
[nq:1]disregard the fact that some people say "exit" as "Egsit".[/nq]
But that's just what you can't do. For example, the first "e" in "interesting" is s

[nq:1]Sure there are easy ones, like "colonel." But don't let that delude you into thinking that there's some simple way of determining what's "phonetic" and what isn't.[/nq]
Give a man a *ghoti ...

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[nq:1]Has anyone compiled a list of words in American English that are not spelled phonetically?[/nq]
Yes. I headed the development of the Franklin Electronic Publisher's pronouncing dictionary. All 88K words were researched, and they are all pronounced correctly by the dictionary. About 40% of the words are not pronounced as they are spelled. I am including those which change the stressed syl

What I mean is, even if most people say "egsit", that doesn't necessarily mean we need to intellectualise the spelling "exit" as un-phonetic, if we construe text as the medium for standardised English. On a natural level, the language evolves, but the spirit of the curricular language could be "Here is why your dialect is of the same language as those in another country they all roughly connect wi

[nq:2]Has anyone compiled a list of words in American English that are not spelled phonetically?[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes. I headed the development of the Franklin Electronic Publisher's pronouncing dictionary. All 88K words were researched, and they are ... words are not pronounced as they are spelled. I am including those which change the stressed syllable like "compress".[/nq]
Woah, hang on a sec