Why is this so?????
@marapplestiffy (2182)
Philippines
December 4, 2010 3:19am CST
Read through
Macgill
Macbeth
Macloughlin
Macgarry
Maclafferty
Macraghnald
Machinery
Macganougall
Now read the second from the last, how did you read machinery again?
Isn't it funny when we read similar sounds we tend to think that all in a list are the same too? Did you read machinery as Mac-hinery? or were you able to read it as it is really pronounced?
5 responses
@celticeagle (168473)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Dec 10
Yep! MacHinery it was. You are a scamp. Making me read funny. Now I have it all. think funny, act funny, look funny and now read funny. What more can there be? Mom would be so proud! She always said I was meant for greatness and she was right. You are a silly young woman. With alot of time on your hands as well. LOL
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@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
4 Dec 10
The English words are unique and beautiful and I have no idea why some words are pronounced in a way that don't correspond with the way it is spelled.
@ScrambledBrains (143)
•
27 Dec 10
It depends where the word originally came from. So, for example, loanwords that English has taken from French (e.g. mirage) keep their French pronunciation and spelling. Another difference is that, over time, the way a word is pronounced may have changed, but the spelling hasn't, so words like "blood" and "flood" are pronounced today as "blud" and "flud", but hundreds of years ago, they were pronounced exactly how they are spelled, with a long o sound (think of saying blooooood and floooood), and if you hear somebody speaking one of the Scandinavian languages (where English got these words from), you'll find them still pronounced with that long o sound today.
@veejay19 (3589)
• India
5 Dec 10
I read through the whole lot as you have written and did pronounce machinery as it is usually done and not as Mac-hinery.Well i did not get caught.during our childhood days we used to ask someone to say rut,but,hut,cut,nut,put,tut gut etc.Invariably put used to be pronounced not as it should be but as but.It was fun.
@marapplestiffy (2182)
• Philippines
5 Dec 10
LOL, aye! lucky you... I didn't know about this and I was reading it out loud with friends...I'll try those words you wrote with them and see if they'd still fall for this kind of trap^^
