TAUGHT A THOUGHT

What’s so funny about this? If your native language is Spanish or Hungarian or some other phonetic language where every word is pronounced exactly the way it’s written, then you might as well forget about understanding this joke, especially if you are only reading it and not hearing it. Those of you only listening to this is as a podcast or audioboom, you still have a chance if you avoid reading it. Here’ the thing, spoken, the joke isn’t even funny it’s just a simple statement of fact, albeit, slightly stiff and convoluted. If you include the title I have given it then this is a collection of mostly homographs, that is, words written the same but pronounced differently. If it were only one homograph with two pronunciations, then you might be able to remember them quite easily. But the fact is though the letter combination OUGH can be said in multiple ways depending on the context and other letters in the word. Let’s take the GH. This DIGRAPH, or combination of two consonants dates bac