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I found another one

On the line of Internal language unawareness, I found a word that has “th”, but not a [θ] sound.

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Posted on June 19, 2019Categories complaint, English language, UXTags orthography, phonetics, spellingLeave a comment on I found another one

Internal language unawareness

I am thinking of a word, universally admitted to be English, that has the letters S and H together, but which is never pronounced as if it contains the [ʃ] phoneme.

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Posted on May 11, 2019May 11, 2019Categories complaint, English language, UXTags orthography, phonetics, spelling3 Comments on Internal language unawareness
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