abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoThe letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"message-squaremessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareThe letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out"abrake@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAgrivar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI’m glad I checked Wikipedia before just talking out my ass, as the attribution is less clear than I thought, but the first I heard of this was in Phish circles back in the 90s!
minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYeah, that’s why I was remiss to give an attribution.
I’m glad I checked Wikipedia before just talking out my ass, as the attribution is less clear than I thought, but the first I heard of this was in Phish circles back in the 90s!
Yeah, that’s why I was remiss to give an attribution.