A few days ago
Do you agree..?
The fact that the spelling is far from phonetic – the same combinations of letters can stand for totally different words, like the “ough” in “tough”, “though”, “drought”, etc.
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I completly agree! That is why they say English is one of the hardest languages to learn!
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A few days ago
The fact is:
Some words are phonetic, Some words are not phonetic.
That is why I feel kids need to know how to use phonetics and know what sight words are.
English has as many exceptions to the rules as there are rules!!! LOL
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A few days ago
If you all look in the other answers, you’ll see where AUNTY has copied and pasted MY answer, so you might want to keep an eye on yours! She’s getting good thumbs for MY answer lol…
If you look at my answer in one of the other “do you agrees?” My anser has been posted for about an hour now….
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A few days ago
I agree with you. There is the classic joke of “fish” being spelt “ghoti” where the gh is pronounced as in rough, the o as in women, and the ti as in nation.
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A few days ago
Hey, try plumber, and lumber
Or “I’ll Wind up this toy”
“The Wind is Blowing in my face”
The english laguage is considered the hardest to learn. I’m still finding out stuff about it.. I’d really like to learn japanese though.
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A few days ago
Uh, this may come as a shock to you, I had four years of English in high school and two years in college. Congratulations if you just discovered that. â¥
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word origins come into play in some instances, and translations from other languages do too
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