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Hgreenberg Posted 8 years ago
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why is outh pronounced differently in couth than mouth?

  

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hgreenberg W hy is outh pronounced differently in couth than mouth? Nobody knows. Why do birds sing?

  • hgreenberg W hy is outh pronounced differently in couth than mouth?
  • Nobody knows.
  • Why do birds sing?
  • "ou", like many other vowel-letter combinations in English, has more than one pronunciation.
  • That's just the way that English has developed historically, and it's too late to change it now.
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hgreenberg

Why is outh pronounced differently in couth than mouth?

Nobody knows. Why do birds sing?

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