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The letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out" (lemmy.world)
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At least in my dialect/accent of English

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[-] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

They’re saying ought is pronounced aught, not out, even though the gh is silent. If the g h was just silent then ought and out would be pronounced the same, so clearly the silent letters are doing something else

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