Damian Mee

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No other language in the world has more words spelled the same way and yet pronounced differently. Consider just a few: heard — beard road — broad five — give fillet — skillet early — dearly beau — beauty steak — streak ache — mustache low — how doll — droll scour — four four — tour grieve — sieve paid — said break — speak
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way
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