# English is fun
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 6, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387 "2011-02-06T13:30:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/1 "2011-02-06T13:30:11Z")
Doh!
Doe
Dough
Dough
Dodo
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### Author:  [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/2 "2011-02-06T18:27:01Z")
to
too
two
tew
tutu
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/3 "2011-02-06T19:09:11Z")
laugh
cough
enough
through
thorough
draught
drought
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/4 "2011-02-06T19:14:10Z")
Louse–Lice
Mouse–Mice
Douse–Dice?
Nouse–Nice?
Rouse–Rice?
Spouse–Spice?
Vouse–Vice?
Blouse–Blice?
House–Hice?
Souce–Sice?
Slouse–Slice?
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### Author:  [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/5 "2011-02-06T19:53:54Z")
Do
Dew
Due
doo-doo
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### Author:  [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/6 "2011-02-06T19:56:42Z")
hint
tint
lint
mint
…pint?
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/7 "2011-02-06T20:46:04Z")
“The tough coughs as he ploughs through the dough.”
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/8 "2011-02-06T21:08:16Z")
Key
Quay
Cay
Carat
Karat
caret
carrot
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/9 "2011-02-06T21:58:46Z")
[Dearest creature in creation](http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/PUB/misc-misc/DearestCreature.html),
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse…
🙂
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/10 "2011-02-06T22:37:12Z")
Spelling English is easy enough
Though some people do find it rough;
It’s just I before E
Except after C
And all of the rest of that stough.
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### Author:  [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/11 "2011-02-07T00:01:46Z")
You
Yew
Ewe
U
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### Author:  [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/12 "2011-02-07T01:57:05Z")
cut the tree down
cut the tree up
The doe does strange things near the buck.
The tailor and two sewers fell into the sewers.
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### Author:  [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/13 "2011-02-07T01:59:19Z")
Sink
Sank
Sunk
Think
Thank
Thunk
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### Author:  [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/14 "2011-02-07T02:01:25Z")
ghoti
gh as in rou **gh**
o as in w **o** men
ti as in na **ti** on
Ergo ghoti is pronounced fish
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### Author:  [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/15 "2011-02-07T03:50:00Z")
Go.
Do.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/16 "2011-02-07T03:57:45Z")
There was a young man named Colquhoun
Who kept as a pet a babuhoun
His mother said ‘Cholmondeley,
I don’t think it’s quite colmondeley
To feed your babuhoun with a spuhoun’.
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### Author:  [@notthatagain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notthatagain)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/17 "2011-02-07T04:14:03Z")
A daughter’s laughter
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/18 "2011-02-07T04:19:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#):
>
> There was a young man named Colquhoun
> Who kept as a pet a babuhoun
> His mother said ‘Cholmondeley,
> I don’t think it’s quite colmondeley
> To feed your babuhoun with a spuhoun’.
Is knowing that Cholmondeley is pronounced “chumlee” really that common? I personally have only seen it spelled chumlee or chumly.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-is-fun/570387/19 "2011-02-07T05:44:51Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
>
> laugh
> cough
> enough
> through
> thorough
>
> draught
> drought
slough (marsh)
slough (to shed)
bough
bought
dough
doughty
laugh
lough
sough
sought