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The letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out" (self.showerthoughts)
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At least in my dialect/accent of English

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

We could have if things were a little different. I'm not sure about Old Norse nor Old English, but Modern German does change Haus to Häuser (that äu is pronounced kinda like 'oi') and presumably it was quite similar in (at least some varieties of) Old English.