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How could you spell this pseudo word in a way people would know how to pronounce it on sight?

Asked by keobooks (14322points) January 19th, 2012

This is a very minor thing. But it’s one of those little conundrums that really irritated me because it’s so simple, yet I can’t think of a solution.

My daughter was saying “green bean.” But she didn’t pronounce the R. I was thinking about how to spell green without the R. Most spelling rules seem to make this impossible.You can’t say ‘geen’ because this would likely be pronounced “jeen”. Gine would have a soft g and would rhyme with wine.

The only thing I could think of was Indian clarified butter “ghee” – but gheen might look like it would be pronounced ‘Zsheen’.

So it’s a silly little thing. But it is such a simple little easy to pronounce thing and it’s driving me crazy that I can’t think of a way to spell it so that people would instantly know how to pronounce it when they see it. I’m not planning on spelling it. I just can’t let it go until I see if other people have an idea on it.

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