abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agoThe letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"message-squaremessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1172arrow-down113file-text
arrow-up1159arrow-down1message-squareThe letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-26 days agoDo you want ought? - Do you want anything? Is sometimes pronounced very similarly to “do you want out”? I’d spell it ‘ought’, but I’ve seen ‘aught’.
Do you want ought? - Do you want anything?
Is sometimes pronounced very similarly to “do you want out”? I’d spell it ‘ought’, but I’ve seen ‘aught’.