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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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why words of the same digraph 'ch' have different pronunciation
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Anonymous W hy do words of the same digraph 'ch' have different pronunciation s? Nobody said English was logical.
- Anonymous W hy do words of the same digraph 'ch' have different pronunciation s?
- Nobody said English was logical.
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Anonymous Why do words of the same digraph 'ch' have different pronunciations?
Nobody said English was logical.
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Hi
I don't think a logical explanation can be given. Very broadly, words that arrived via Anglo-Saxon and Norman tend to have the soft 'ch' - chop, change, choice. Words from Greek tend to have the hard 'ch' - chromatic, dichotomy, Christ
But it's really not possible to generalise
Dave
I don't think a logical explanation can be given. Very broadly, words that arrived via Anglo-Saxon and Norman tend to have the soft 'ch' - chop, change, choice. Words from Greek tend to have the hard 'ch' - chromatic, dichotomy, Christ
But it's really not possible to generalise
Dave
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