General language awesomeness

[homeworkisapotato]

"Ough" in words is pronounced in NINE different ways, and this sentence contains them all:
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." 

[caffinatedloz]

Words have a "lifespan", so to speak, of anywhere between 1000 and 20,000 years.

[Joseph41]

"Ough" in words is pronounced in NINE different ways, and this sentence contains them all:
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." 

This (amongst other things) is why learning English as an additional language must be so very difficult.

[Remy33]

This (amongst other things) is why learning English as an additional language must be so very difficult.

I agree lmao. When I first started learning english my teacher told me this to fuck me up:
"laid rhymes with paid but not said, said rhymes with bread but not bead, bead rhymes with lead but not lead."