I guess I’m numb to -ough because it’s a relatively common letter sequence in English, i.e. it kind of follows a rule, but salmon is pretty much unique. And ‘through’ doesn’t have that absurd origin of “let’s add a silent letter to make it more similar to latin”.
The word through exists and you’re upset about a little silent L
I guess I’m numb to -ough because it’s a relatively common letter sequence in English, i.e. it kind of follows a rule, but salmon is pretty much unique. And ‘through’ doesn’t have that absurd origin of “let’s add a silent letter to make it more similar to latin”.