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Weird English
Silent letters, rebel spellings and rules that break themselves. The gloriously odd stuff.
Why is there a “b” in doubt?
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Read vs Read
Past or present? Only context can tell.
Queue Has 5 Letters. Say 1.
It's spelled with five letters and pronounced with one. What happened to the other four?
Colonel = Kernel?
There's no R in "colonel". So why does everyone say "kernel"?
Doubt Has a B?!
Nobody says the B. So who put it there?
The Ghost K in Knight
You don't say the K in "knight." Earlier English speakers did. What happened?
Though, Through, Tough, Thought
Same four letters. Four very different sounds. English looked at consistency and said, “No thanks.”