Mar
27
2010
The Peculiarities of the English Language
As a bilingual couple, my wife and I have had our fair share of laughs at the peculiarities of the English language. As this hilarious clip from I Love Lucy points out, look at all the ways “ough” can be pronounced:
- bough (pronounced bow)
- rough (pronounced ruff)
- through (pronounced thru)
- cough (pronounced coff)
This line from Ricky expresses Corina’s sentiment many times: In Spanish (or in Corina’s case, Romanian), you got a sound and it sounds the same… all the time. You write it the same way, it sounds the same way, no matter what word you put it in, it comes out the same way!
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