And the reason for this is that no one has dared do what the Italians, Spanish and French did: Rework the dictionary whilst not too many people could read/write, so that spelling and pronunciation matched up. Instead we have stupidities like read being able to rhyme with bead and red without changing it's spelling, and the town of Slough rhyming with cow, not tough or dough. And of course the river Thames and the herb thyme do pronounce the "th" as "t", which is not the case for other "th" in English (comes from their origin in Gaelic/Welsh).Originally Posted by Sebastiani
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