Originally Posted by bearisgray
Phonics - for English - only goes so far
think of all the words that end in "ough"
rough, through, bough, enough, cough, dough
I once had and english teacher tell us that the english language is difficult to learn because of those strange combinations that sound like another letter that could have been used instead.
GHOTI ,with the sounds and combinations actually spells 'fish'
we see gh sounding like f (cough), o sounding like i pretty often but I can't think of anything off the top of my head, and ti sounding like sh (commotion)... can be very confusing!