What languages, like English, have a script in which symbols represent sounds, but also (like English) represent it so poorly that the reader often can't know from the spelling how the word is pronounced?
What languages, like English, have a script in which symbols represent sounds, but also (like English) represent it so poorly that the reader often can't know from the spelling how the word is pronounced?
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