Re: tlhn'ks't, ngghlyam'ft, and other scary words

John Cowan wrote:
>
>Danny Wier scripsit:
>
> > That's because my native language is English, which is
> > obviously the language of the Devil, but it somehow functions with all
>those
> > ridiculous spelling conventions. Tetragraphs. English has <ough> with
>six
> > pronunciations,
>
>Eight: bough, though, enough, cough, bought, through, hough, borough.
>Not all dialects distinguish all of these.  (In RI they are
>bough, tho, enuff, coff, baught, thru, hock, burro respectively.)
>Even more remarkably, these eight pronunciations are distributed over
>only about 30 words altogether.
What about _hiccough_, or is my dictionary being odd again? It claims it to
be homophonuous with _hiccup_.

                                            Andreas

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