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mr_hippo

Living Legend & Old Fart
As we all know, 'ph' in English is normally pronounced 'f' but in three fairly common words it is not. What are those three words? These words are not hyphenated and are not names or tradenames.

For the fourth word, again a fairly common word, which word contains 'wkw' consecutively?
 

cisamcgu

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Merseyside-ish
mr_hippo said:
As we all know, 'ph' in English is normally pronounced 'f' but in three fairly common words it is not. What are those three words? These words are not hyphenated and are not names or tradenames.

For the fourth word, again a fairly common word, which word contains 'wkw' consecutively?


that is an awkward question
 

Tetedelacourse

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Rosyth
mr_hippo said:
As we all know, 'ph' in English is normally pronounced 'f' but in three fairly common words it is not. What are those three words? These words are not hyphenated and are not names or tradenames.

For the fourth word, again a fairly common word, which word contains 'wkw' consecutively?

wkw: hawkwind:biggrin: Presumably not a noun you're after though worth a mention!

ph:

haphazard
uphill
rephair (used in hairdressing circles for covering up mistakes):biggrin:
 
:biggrin:Not the one I had in mind, but good try.
 

Pete

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mr_hippo said:
As we all know, 'ph' in English is normally pronounced 'f' but in three fairly common words it is not. What are those three words? These words are not hyphenated and are not names or tradenames.
I think I might have got to the answer, in a rather haphazard sort of way...

When I was a kid we played about with a grammatically correct sentence which included the word 'had' eleven times in succession....
 

papercorn2000

Senior Member
Pete said:
I think I might have got to the answer, in a rather haphazard sort of way...

When I was a kid we played about with a grammatically correct sentence which included the word 'had' eleven times in succession....

Jim, where John had had 'had', had had 'had had', 'had had' had had the thumbs up from the teacher
 
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