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Every C is Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
thot
toot
thou
true
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.
Oh, like loch or chet
Trough
A better alphabet.
Though Thoreau taught thorough thought through the tough tests throughout the trough.
A list of Mike Tyson’s favorite words
Tough, bough, cough, dough, lough.
… lough?
