Is that right? Not really — they are different vowels. Remember you can listen to sound recordings of all the words in the Cambridge Dictionary on this site — for British and American English. That will probably help to explain the differences.
Reblogged this on Site Title. There is one interesting word in English which could be pronounced two ways. It is not spelled s-l-o-u-g-h. In British English rules my rule pardon me for double rule, oops, now triple.
Thank you, Ms Walter! English spelling is a bit easier than oriental logograms but not much. Shaw left some money for this purpose. Where is it? A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. Excellent article … I loved it. Excellent comments as well. Should the silent gh … be treated as eighth variation??? I wish to read all of your articles and posts.
There is another pronunciation that is unique to one word, as far as I know. Subsequently, for confirmation, I looked it up. So bizarre! The cure is to reset the epiglottis rhythm.
Thank God I found this … Bless you.. By that time the pronunciation was already changing. The Great Vowel Shift was underway and many parts of the language were in flux, but by the time the shift was complete, the printing press had stabilized the writing system, and the "gh," pointing back to an earlier English, was here to stay.
The word-initial "gh" of ghost and ghoul came from the habits of Flemish typesetters. Words borrowed from Italian like spaghetti and ghetto just stuck with Italian spelling conventions.
Deusovi Deusovi 2, 10 10 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. English is super weird. Well, so are all the languages. Thanks for the information. Much appreciated. The sound of "gh" in many areas remains almost identical to the Esperanto character h-with a circumflex, or the Scottish aspirated "ch" sound. All languages except recent creoles have long and sloppy histories; it's not just an English thing. Add a comment. This has to do with traditional spelling that could mirror, or attempt to mirror, the spelling used by the language the word was borrowed from "ph" is, in the vast majority of cases, indicates Greek origin coupled with Latin abuse and, sometimes, the Norman French delivery service ; [let's take a breath] or , should the word be Anglo-Saxon to begin with, the original pronunciation plays a huge role.
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Middle English had one, but it was lost. What that means is that the sounds changed, but the spelling didn't, since the spelling got fixed before the Early Modern English period roughly, ; after is Modern English. When a big sound change is happening, different things happen in different dialects, and then they all merge together, with different words coming from different dialects that made different changes.
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