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The letters "gh" in the word "ought" are silent but "ought" is not pronounced like "out" (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 day ago by abrake to c/showerthoughts
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At least in my dialect/accent of English

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Also, the first printing presses that came to England were accompanied by Dutch type setters. They sometimes made spellings more Dutch (changing gost to ghost for example). They were also paid by the line, so would occasionally add unnecessary letters to words.