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English is weird
Is it cold in here?:
30 definitions? I know someone who built a CMU master's thesis on preposition roles.
Tova:
Oh, for sure! This is just my little Chambers dictionary, not the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary, which would doubtless have more.
pwhodges:
As a change from different pronunciations of the same letters (see "ough"), I offer widely varied spellings of the same sound.
Eight and ate (in some dialects) sound the same; but here are two less-known spellings with the same sound: ait and eyot - which are in fact also the same word historically, meaning a small, possibly temporary, island in a river, typically but not only the Thames.
Tova:
After previously being tripped up by a pun that for me didn't work at all, but worked in a specific region of the USA, I want to ask you how you pronounce all four of those words.
pwhodges:
This is near enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKAKNzLIU9s
Actually, this is better:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/eight
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