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.
The only reason you pronounce the H is because at some point the brits decided dropping the H made you sound low class. So congrats on perpetuating the elitism
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
That’s not how any of that works.
It is phonetically how it works.
“through” is just cheating at Scrabble
do you have a flag?
You say erbs, and we say herbs. Because there’s a fucking h in it.
I don’t think the British need to pick the “who’s worse about skipping letters” fight. Lol
The only reason you pronounce the H is because at some point the brits decided dropping the H made you sound low class. So congrats on perpetuating the elitism
I was quoting the stand up set.