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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

The letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"

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The letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

At least in my dialect/accent of English

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it’s funny how I as a Ukrainian can easily clearly pronounce both English and French variants, while my language is from even a different language group :D

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