Tough, bough, cough, dough, lough.
Language model
Submitted 7 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk 7 months ago
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 7 months ago
… lough?
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 7 months ago
It’s a lake in Northern Ireland. Loch is Scottish, Lough Northern Irish.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 months ago
A list of Mike Tyson’s favorite words
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Though Thoreau taught thorough thought through the tough tests throughout the tugboat.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 months ago
Trough
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Should also add taut, threw and threw-out to this
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Every C is Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The first C in Pacific is pronounced at least very similarly to the one in Ocean, depending on dialect.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Same goes for every E in Mercedes
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ste41th@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Makes sense
wjrii@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And for every single one of them, the ‘gh’ at one point described a phlegmy hissing sound. Modern English spelling is sometimes closer to Chinese than we might think.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Oh, like loch or chet
Robin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
thot
udon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
thou
ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
true
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 7 months ago
toot
aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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A better alphabet.