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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest
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In article <4t7918$hba@nntp.sierra.net>
spynx@sierra.net (Jack Durst) writes:

> English is much simpler in it's spoken form, because of it's ill suited 
> and historically based spelling system.  How does one pronounce -ough?

Even more puzzling, how does one pronounce -ough without speaking?

David

"Heideggerian hope comes into question." J.D.
