# Is that how it's spelled?

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**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-how-its-spelled/520426 "2009-12-08T09:22:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-that-how-its-spelled/520426/2 "2009-12-08T09:45:49Z")

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Usually, just about any word adopted from another language would have this characteristic.

But, common words also are pronounced differently than they are spelled. Here are some words off the top of my head:  
school  
knight (I love this word, sounded out, it would be ke-ni-git)  
sword  
anything with the -tion suffix  
rhythm (ri-tuh-hem)

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