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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

But and put

hi
why but is not like put in pronunciation?
why such difference?
my teacher said the british queen may have said like that.
gokak
  

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It has nothing to do with Her Majesty. Because of the history and various sources of the English vocabulary, pronunciation often has little to do with the spelling. Consider all of these: t ough, bough, cough, dough, hiccough, thorough, laugh, through heard, beard dead, bead meat, great, threat font, front word, sword do, go monkey, donkey corps, corks horse, worse friend, fiend doll, roll evil, devil fury, bury

— Mister Micawber

  • It has nothing to do with Her Majesty.
  • Because of the history and various sources of the English vocabulary, pronunciation often has little to do with the spelling.
  • Consider all of these: t ough, bough, cough, dough, hiccough, thorough, laugh, through heard, beard dead, bead meat, great, threat font, front word, sword do, go monkey, donkey corps, corks horse, worse friend, fiend doll, roll evil, devil fury, bury
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It has nothing to do with Her Majesty. Because of the history and various sources of the English vocabulary, pronunciation often has little to do with the spelling. Consider all of these:

tough, bough, cough, dough, hiccough, thorough, laugh, through
heard, beard
dead, bead
meat, great, threat
font, front
word, sword
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English has five vowel letters in the alphabet, but there are more like 12 vowels in the spoken language. (The exact number depends on your dialect.) For that reason, spelling and pronunciation never match very well. Just because two things are spelled with the same vowel doesn't mean they are prounounced with the same vowel.

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Anonymoushiwhy but is not like put in pronunciation?why such difference?my teacher said the british queen may have said like that.gokak
It is due to the fact that english language has adopted many words & pronunciation from
diffrent languages of the world.
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