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by liontwist 551 days ago
Those are the non-English words mixed in.

Individual letters don’t have sounds, but trigrams do.

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Given that that's something like half of our lexicon, you're going to have a heck of a time reading if you can't process any of them, but okay, let's look just at words that come from Old English:

food, good

rough, dough

two, to, too