GUYS i looked up ‘ough’ bc i was gonna tag a thing that but my frame of reference for that expression is literally just, like, @dieinct’s tagging so i thought maybe i should like. read up a lil and. (a) “Ough is a four-letter sequence, a tetragraph, used in English orthography and notorious for its unpredictable pronunciation.” (i don't know why ‘notorious for its unpredictable pronunciation’ was SO hilarious to me but it really was!! putting that on my business cards.)
and then (b) “In early colonial America, John Smith used the spelling raugroughcum for the animal that is today known as the raccoon.” i. SO much is happening there. (some of what's happening is algonquin which deserves better than my laughter but like. a lot of other things are happening also.)
finally (c)
uk! also who knew this constituted logophile pay-per-view. a small silly odyssey.
