abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 天前The letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"message-squaremessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1172arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1message-squareThe letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 天前message-square44fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 天前They’re saying ought is pronounced aught, not out, even though the gh is silent. If the g h was just silent then ought and out would be pronounced the same, so clearly the silent letters are doing something else
They’re saying ought is pronounced aught, not out, even though the gh is silent. If the g h was just silent then ought and out would be pronounced the same, so clearly the silent letters are doing something else