And for every single one of them, the 'gh' at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Spelling was sort of locked in on London English around the time that printed books became ubiquitous. Modern English spelling is frozen in a certain time and place with all speakers obliged to just sort of recognize words by sight, and in that sense it can sometimes be closer to Chinese than we might think.
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Every C is Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
English is a meme.
Same goes for every E in Mercedes
The first C in Pacific is pronounced at least very similarly to the one in Ocean, depending on dialect.
thot
toot
thou
true
Tooth
Makes sense
Should also add taut, threw and threw-out to this
And for every single one of them, the 'gh' at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Spelling was sort of locked in on London English around the time that printed books became ubiquitous. Modern English spelling is frozen in a certain time and place with all speakers obliged to just sort of recognize words by sight, and in that sense it can sometimes be closer to Chinese than we might think.
Trough
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A better alphabet.
A list of Mike Tyson's favorite words
Though Thoreau taught thorough thought through the tough tests throughout the trough.
Tough, bough, cough, dough, lough.
... lough?
It's a lake in Northern Ireland. Loch is Scottish, Lough Northern Irish, pronounced the same as Loch.