abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoThe letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"message-squaremessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1127arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareThe letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePasta Dental@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-23 days agoSimilar to this: The french word for squirrel (écureuil) is equally hard for English speakers to pronounce as the English word is for French speakers (I would also add that most English words with two R’s are hard for French speakers; mirror, error and the like)
minus-squareALERT@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoit’s funny how I as a Ukrainian can easily clearly pronounce both English and French variants, while my language is from even a different language group :D
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The french word for squirrel (écureuil) is equally hard for English speakers to pronounce as the English word is for French speakers
(I would also add that most English words with two R’s are hard for French speakers; mirror, error and the like)
it’s funny how I as a Ukrainian can easily clearly pronounce both English and French variants, while my language is from even a different language group :D