1. How do we pronounce "ough" in English?

c	+ ough	-
t		-
th		-
th		t
thor		-
r		-
sl		-

 

2. How do we pronounce the following words?

1. root

2. root beer

3. route

4. route 66

5. paper route

 

 

3. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that...

1. Quicksand can work slowly.
2. Boxing rings are square.
3. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
4. Writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham.
5. Although teachers taught, preachers never praught.
6. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
7. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
8. English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France.
9. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
10. You recite at a play, and play at a recital?
11. You ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
12. We have noses that run and feet that smell?
13. We park on driveways and drive on parkways?
14. A slim chance and a fat chance are the same, yet a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
15. When a house burns up, it burns down.
16. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
17. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
18. When I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it.

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