Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for March 03, 2021

La pronunciación del inglés es muy complicado.

The French did it.

Ouch! This one absolutely doesn’t make any sense without the English translation!

Raises a question: Are these comics done in English first, then translated to Spanish? (Not the first time the Spanish page has left me scratching my head)

I keep thinking about one, done, gone, and lone. And that group isn’t the last.

What do the words: seek, think, bring, catch, buy, fight and teach have in common? -——Their past tenses RHYME. (Sought, thought, brought, caught, bought, fought and taught!)

You can blame the melding of the various languages of pre-Roman Britain with Latin, Germanic Saxon, French and other invaders over the centuries into the English we have today. Saw that on youtube.

I know people who teach English as as second language to the Chinese. I can’t begin to think how to explain these three words and how they are pronounced except “that’s just the way it is”.

Good Food

The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough. Come on, folks, this is Dr. Suess!

Classic ‘I Love Lucy’ episode.

It’s because the english language doesn’t make sense! Or is it since? Anyway… Can’t wait for live music to return. I live for live concerts!

I have a book of older Dr. Seuss cartoons and stories. It’s called “The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough.”

“Tough” and “Cough” do rhyme.

Though it’s not funny……

Just ask Ricky… https://youtu.be/MAL9VD6Lz9Y?t=15

Dr. Seuss noted four different ways “-ough” is pronounced in “The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough.” I wonder why he didn’t make it five, by writing “The tough coughs as he ploughs through the dough.”

English – how do you pronounce “ghoti”? Answer: “gh” as in “cough”, “o” as in “women”. and “ti” as in “graduation”. Because the language hunts down and mugs words from other languages in an alley, English (or American) makes it impossible to have pronunciation rules.

Slough (slur) and slough (sluff). Tough, Thought, brought, enough, rough, dough, thought, drought, dough,fought, cough, brought, bough, bought

It is English, it never makes sense. Why is SKY spelled with a Y but pronounced as I rather than being spelled SKI? Why is SKI spelled with an I but pronounced as if it were an E?The English language is full of words spelled in ways that have no relation to how they are pronounced

After reading today’s “Baldo,” I accidentally came across this British comedy show. The discussion of the many ways to pronounce “-ough” is from about 4:35 to 7:40 on the time clock:

https://youtu.be/gZE85L2XHSc

She could have added a 4th one if she’d thought it THROUGH

Never thought of that and it’s a great question!

to get to the other side

I thought the answer was that the three words had very different origins but I looked it up and they actually have similar roots. So the real reason must be due to poorly educated people misusing the language, which still occurs today.

The English language has so many origins, it makes it difficult to pin down spelling and pronunciation. Speak like a German, Dane, French or Norwegian and you will find English words from those countries.

Same with words that have silent letters, I mean what’s the point? Knife can just be spelled “nife”.

Let’s go to the expert, Gallagher (about 2:00 minutes in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfz3kFNVopk&ab_channel=AuthorJulieGlover