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Comment by phoe-krk

>English has a phonetic alphabet after all, right?

No, it doesn't - if it used IPA, it maybe would, but English has very inconsistent pronunciation for otherwise similar words written in Latin alphabet, a matter that many English native speakers seem to overlook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw

parent phoe-krk 3 years ago

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