On 20/05/15 17:50, David Kastrup wrote:
Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes:
(3. A mostly-trivial poetic bonus: regular and relative are easy to
remember as a pair because the alliteration of them both starting
with “re".)
Bonus? Only native English speakers think along such lines, I
reckon :-)
The pronunciations of cough, bough, though, tough, plough are easy to
remember since they are conveniently different.
Off topic I know but
Note that "slough" has three pronunciations according to meaning:
/sluː/ (as in, "slogging through a slough of mud")[1]
/slʌf/ (as in "to slough off")
/slaʊ/ the town of Slough in the Thames Valley of England
:)
Also reminds me of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti
I always show this to my non-native English speaking colleagues to show
them how ridiculous English can be sometimes.
However it is a very forgiving language, you can really mangle our
sentence structure and we'll still know what you mean ;)
James
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