I have been musing about the complexities of the English language and the perilous pitfalls it places for new learners of the language. Why would you have a spelling such as "laugh" and pronounce it as "laff"? Can you even try to say "laugh" as it is?
Here are a list of words and try to pronounce them as they are written.
1) scent
2) cake
3) knave
4) friend (sounds like a cross between "fried" and "hind" (~o~)//)\
5) mauve
6) doubt
7) island
After all these spelling subtleties, you probably wish you spoke another language other than English. Then you should probably speak the most widely spoken language in the world, which happens to be Mandarin Chinese. Now there's a thought to ponder!! Maybe English is the lesser of the two "evils"!!
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