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To: Blind Eye Jones

ough makes seven different sounds in English. I don't remember all of them though. (that's one)


12 posted on 10/20/2006 12:32:30 PM PDT by Shimmer128 (My beloved is mine and I am his. Song of Solomon 2:16)
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To: Shimmer128

Though
Through
Cough
Tough
Bough
Dough
?????


13 posted on 10/20/2006 12:55:34 PM PDT by FReepapalooza
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To: Shimmer128

And "Fish" can be spelled "GHOTI" --- the "gh" from "enough," the "o" from "women," and the "ti" from "caution."

Here's another fave of mine, coincidentally also involving fish ... If you write the word five times, it's a sentence:

Fish fish fish fish fish.

Shall I post the explanation or wait?

Incidentally, the author makes a mistake right in the beginning with "peruse at your leisure." To peruse actually means to study carefully, but everyone gets that one wrong!


16 posted on 10/20/2006 1:13:29 PM PDT by Truth'sBabyGirl (Bucknell class of 2003, Fordham Law 2006)
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To: Shimmer128

EnouGH
LiGHt
GHost

there's three


22 posted on 10/20/2006 1:29:36 PM PDT by Truth'sBabyGirl (Bucknell class of 2003, Fordham Law 2006)
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