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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2024
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Loved the show Dress to Kill by Eddie Izzard. He thought thru was much better than through coming to the conclusion that through should be pronounced like thruff.
My father used to tell me that ghoti was pronounced "fish."
GH as in rough,
O as in women,
TI as in ration.
Yup. That's a pretty common one to explain the whimsy of the English language