Not Quite Enuff.

So, yesterday, i had one of my little rants about the illogicalities of ‘my’ English language.

This is another one.

Consider the following words (and see if you can figure out what, if any, rules there are at play here)…

War

Wart

Water

Later

Cater

Cat

Cart

Art

Are

Care

Car

War

Wart

Caught

Ought

Thought

Taught

Tort (legal term, sometimes involving a…)

Rort

Wrought (as in wrought iron)

Rought (past tense of reach)

Rough

Tough

Though

Thought

Bought

Bough (as in branch of tree)

Ugh!

Ok – Enough!

Ghor nough. ( – ‘for now’) 😉

 

love.

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