>>69072927Oh my God, anon, you are a fucking IDIOT
I was not arguing that "caw" rhymes with "off" - I was making exactly the OPPOSITE argument
Specifically, that "Caugh" could absolutely be a homophone to "caw"
The wikipedia article I linked inarguably has to do with what we are discussing because that specific element of the English language has not changed, no matter how much you cry "muh current year". "Gh" can, and often still is, read softly - as in the name "Keighley", which is a name that people still fucking have
Not only was I not wrong, (You) are *comically* wrong, and with the sort of brazen confidence that could only ever come with a severe case of the Dunning-Kreuger effect. Try coming to an Anglophone country and speaking to the locals without EVER using a soft pronunciation for a "gh", and I'll sit back and watch as the locals laugh at you for sounding like the retarded ESL chimp you really are. Sorry, but I'm not going to own your failures for you; that is your shame to bear, and yours alone
