Can you name the words from their phonetic spelling?

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Source: dictionary.com
If multiple pronucations were given, only the first is included. Letters in parentheses - eg. (uh) - denote superscripted parts of the pronunciation. Marks that show emphasis (eg. ') are not included.
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Phonetic Spelling	English Spelling
sit-ee
shooz
kon-kreet
tel-uh-vizh-uhn
en-juh-neer
kuhn-cher-toh
peynt
ahy-luhnd
guh-rahzh
kawf
joh-vee-uhl
muh-sheen
buh-nan-uh
sahy-kol-uh-jee
suhn-dey
ruhf
peet-suh
pee-an-oh
kuhm-pleynt
pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn
im-uh-nuhnt
pen-juh-luhm
buh-nan-zuh
chel-oh
bahy-ol-uh-jee

Phonetic Spelling	English Spelling
puh-tey-tohz
fiz-iks
rahy-nos-er-uhs
kuhm-pyoo-ter
gahr-bij
throo
fer-get-fuhl
myoo-zik
im-pawr-tnt
wahyf
boks-iz
kem-uh-stree
os-uh-leyt
soo-pur-floo-uhs
fawr-tee
gri-neyd
nok-ing
sahy-koh-uh-nal-uh-sis
plan-tey-shuhn
sis-tuh-mat-ik
rith-uhm
nahyvz
rid-l
fahy(uh)r
fuh-net-ik

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Phonetic Spelling Typing Challenge Quiz

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Created Aug 10, 2011 in Just For Fun
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	extranail09:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:13 GMT		56 points
	Neat quiz, but when I actually read a lot these aloud I feel like I'm speaking with a weird drawl.

	Merdivorous:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:17 GMT		50 points
	What dialect of English do you speak?

	WyattsTorch:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:18 GMT		4 points
	Kayn-duh fuhn, kayn-duh ee-zay.

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	trusting365:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:22 GMT		17 points
	mahr-vuh-luhs. could not figure out wife, knives or fire. :(

	BillDiaco:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:24 GMT		43 points
	I don't like the long "I" phonetic. Is that really how you phonetically spell long "I"s?

	hodgetiger:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:25 GMT		22 points
	Guess who automatically typed in 'TV' when the word television came up ?!

	Griffinite:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:27 GMT		12 points
	Had to say most of these out loud before they clicked. Nicely done.

	VogonPoet:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:30 GMT		79 points
	I don't see the need for this to be forced answer in order.

	Bobman1:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:38 GMT		16 points
	AHY is really pronounced the same as "I" or "aye" or "eye"??? Looks like this was a tripping hazard--I burned 30 seconds on it and the dropoff after it is pretty big (though not the biggest). I was saying outloud "a-hee" and "a-high" and got nowhere; I just typed in Island as a desperation move before quitting. Fun quiz--part of the fun was saying them out loud like a first grader learning to sound out words. Come to think of it, my 3rd grader may STILL spell like some of these clues....

	loewinluo:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:47 GMT		13 points
	This might be improved if you do this by regional accent of English (or you could just do a series of quizzes). I spent a while trying to input "roof" for one of the answers. No cookie. Cool idea on the whole, though!

	Dyer:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 18:56 GMT		2 points
	Nocking needs to be accepted as an alternative to knocking as they both fit the same phonetic pattern.

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	theworryrock:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:02 GMT		13 points
	@ BillDiaco - the IPA way of spelling the long "I" sound is "ai" with a line over it. "nahyvz" took me forever. why not nyvz?

	Crawl:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:06 GMT		28 points
	guh-rahzh almost got me. Guh - rahze? Grass? Graze? Grace? I think I actually do pronounce "garage" with a g sound at the end.

	Dyer:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:07 GMT		17 points
	Also, immanent should be an acceptable answer for the imminent clue as they have the exact same phonetic pronunciation too.

	Commodore:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:15 GMT		10 points
	Wicked assum quiz, but it jes don't wick fer us mickeys up heah in Havvad Yad.

	Cheeselord:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:16 GMT		8 points
	Reading these out got me some really weird looks from the other people in the internet cafe.....

	Cheeselord:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:20 GMT		7 points
	It would be really cool if we actually wrote like this. You would come home from your job as an en-juh-neer on suhn-dey, and have a buh-nan-uh and a peet-suh. And if you haven't worked it out yet, i didn't get past pronunciation.

	godonlyknows:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:36 GMT		21 points
	Doesn't help I pronounce it gah-ridge.

	ElisDaddy:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:52 GMT		10 points
	Question my sanity indeed! I actually typed in 'pitza' and wondered why it didn't work. Also had a hard time grasping that 'nahyvz' was a one-syllable word and typed in 'novice'.

	jrfeenix:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 19:58 GMT		13 points
	Some of these seem much less phonetic to me than the actual original spellings (i.e. "peynt"). Cool idea, some of the choices just seemed off.

	Ayreonaut:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 20:07 GMT		11 points
	"Fawr-tee" sounds like a synonym for "gassy", not a number. And I know I definitely say "pend-ill-um", but have heard both ways. Despite it being nearly impossible for these to apply to everyone, well done on the quiz.

	Rob42:	Mar 9th, 2012 at 20:32 GMT		1 point
	Good, fun quiz. Doing well until I hit the obscure word "oscillate". Not exactly a word which we use in everyday speech, is it? Also I agree with others about the use of "ahy" for "I", but then again it did not take that long to work this one out, by looking at the rest of the word(s).