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You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?

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I’m picking “Colonel” needs to be respelled to match how it’s pronounced.

Try to pick a word no one else has picked. What word are you respelling?

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Come to think of it, I just used the first version that came to mind.

After some more research from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

Wotan - High German

Odin - Norse

Wōden - Old English.

Wōden would be the correct origin for Wednesday, which is the source of the W and D.
Not sure how the “ō” got changed to an “e” though.

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