Same word different pronunciation?

[mr_hippo]

Try reading this:-
http://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/pronunciation.shtml

 

[Maz]

Fooshi?

Don't you mean Sushi? That's fish.

 

[MontyVeda]

please stop... you're paving the the way for more American English!

 

[col]

Don't you mean Sushi? That's fish.

But the pronunciation of gh in tough is tuff as in f isnt it?

 

[Edge705]

I don’t believe in beliefs believe me I don’t

 

[Norm]

Back to the OP, it's come about because English is a mix of many different languages, pulling in the occasional word or grammar structure and incorporating it, even though it is at odds with what went before.

Generalising, Americans speak a more traditional form of English.

 

[Beebo]

grammar:- either you know your shoot, or you know you're shoot

 

[Norm]

You forgot Slough and slough dude

Wrong. They rhyme with bough, they were covered.

 

[growingvegetables]

Arabic is so simple - most all words are based on a 3-letter root. So k-t-b (basic meaning "write") gives you
- write
- book
- desk
- office
- bureau
- clerk
- secretary
- library
- bookshop
- fate
- author
- record
- correspondence
- typewriter
- graphology
- and no doubt many more I can't think of offhand.

That list of "English" equivalents includes words with origins in Germanic languages, Latin (through the Church), Latin (via the Normans and their French), direct from French, and Greek. All for the simple concept of writing.

One of the real pleasures of the simple Arabic system, is clarity and accuracy. The 3 letter root s-q-f means "to lie, mis-spell" (and gives the Arabic for "journalist" and "journalism").

There are people who collect used road tax discs - my fascination is words and their roots.

 

[col]

Wrong. They rhyme with bough, they were covered.

And Bow too.

 

[rich p]

I've just thought of one...

c**t and Cameron

 

[Lisa21]

RichP > Cheese'N'onion

 

[marshmella]

I've just thought of one...

c**t and Cameron

Oh i see, do you mean CLOT?

 

[Nearly there]

I've just thought of one...

c**t and Cameron

I was gonna say that one

 

[swee'pea99]

There are people who collect used road tax discs - my fascination is words and their roots.

You might enjoy the post half-way down http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/riformd-spelling.82948/#post-1491625