Poll of the Day > Why is it pronounced

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Bacon_Pancakes
06/09/18 6:49:10 PM
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Food like foo-d

But good is guh-d

Why isn't it fuh-d or goo-d
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rogerskg1979
06/09/18 6:51:52 PM
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If the plural of mouse is mice, then why isn't hice the plural of house?
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Bacon_Pancakes
06/09/18 6:52:36 PM
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naked nay-kid

baked bay-k'd
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Mario_VS_DK
06/09/18 7:01:52 PM
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It's not a question of why they are pronounced differently, it's a question of how the spelling became similar as they used to be different.
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Nomak-54
06/09/18 7:07:50 PM
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Kyuubi4269
06/09/18 7:12:53 PM
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Mario_VS_DK posted...
It's not a question of why they are pronounced differently, it's a question of how the spelling became similar as they used to be different.

Some words did change pronunciation though.
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Its like he wants two things at the same time.
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dedbus
06/09/18 7:16:35 PM
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adjl
06/09/18 7:35:30 PM
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Because English is stupid.
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myghostisdead
06/09/18 7:59:05 PM
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Bacon_Pancakes posted...
naked nay-kid

baked bay-k'd


I say nekkid
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DPsx7
06/09/18 8:09:47 PM
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Why do you cook bacon and bake cookies? House hice. Mouse mice. Think thunk. Sunny moony.
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keyblader1985
06/09/18 8:12:18 PM
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That's a tough thought though.
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Golden Road
06/09/18 8:13:51 PM
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There's also flood and blood, which have yet another pronunciation =D
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Bacon_Pancakes
06/09/18 8:56:18 PM
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Golden Road posted...
There's also flood and blood, which have yet another pronunciation =D

Wait how do you pronounce them? They rhyme how I say them
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LinkPizza
06/09/18 8:59:09 PM
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Bacon_Pancakes posted...
Golden Road posted...
There's also flood and blood, which have yet another pronunciation =D

Wait how do you pronounce them? They rhyme how I say them

I wasnt thinking the same thing...
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ParanoidObsessive
06/09/18 9:39:10 PM
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Bacon_Pancakes posted...
Food like foo-d

But good is guh-d

Why isn't it fuh-d or goo-d

For the same reason that vowels in general can be pronounced "long" or "short" (and consonants can be "hard" or "soft"). Because there are more phonemes in language than we currently have symbols to accurately represent (especially since we don't want to have to remember 50,000 different characters the way Chinese/Japanese handle it).


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Zeus
06/09/18 9:51:38 PM
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Bacon_Pancakes posted...
Food like foo-d

But good is guh-d


Uh, what? You're pronouncing "good" like "god" >_>

rogerskg1979 posted...
If the plural of mouse is mice, then why isn't hice the plural of house?


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adjl posted...
Because English is stupid.


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keyblader1985
06/09/18 10:47:13 PM
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WTF is going on in my kingdom
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