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Thanks Sergio, very interesting. And weird… Loading September 24, at pm Reply. September 25, at am Reply. September 25, at pm. September 24, at am Reply. Ps: thanks for the excellent explanation Loading September 29, at am Reply. Wow, top marks for anyone who gets that right!
October 1, at pm Reply. October 4, at pm Reply. October 5, at am Reply. Thanks Loading October 19, at am Reply. November 5, at pm Reply. I have never heard that one before! Thanks for sharing. November 6, at am Reply. Keighley, pronounced Keeth-lee, a town in Yorkshire, England. The Great Vowel Shift was underway and many parts of the language were in flux, but by the time the shift was complete, the printing press had stabilized the writing system, and the "gh," pointing back to an earlier English, was here to stay.
The word-initial "gh" of ghost and ghoul came from the habits of Flemish typesetters. Words borrowed from Italian like spaghetti and ghetto just stuck with Italian spelling conventions. Delight and sprightly were modified under the influence of light and right. It's pretty silly. But then, this question has been left unanswered since preschool.
English clearly defines an alphabet 'F'. So why is a 'Ph' used? It is pretty basic and elementary. As for "Gh", most of the words containing it come from German and old English. It was pronounced then as "ch" is in German today - as a rasp in the back of the throat, like the "ch" in "Loch Ness".
Nobody really knows why, but around the same time that vowels shifted and English spelling was regularized, the "gh" sound was removed from English entirely. In some cases, it was just made silent knight, sigh , and in some others it changed into a lot of different sounds. Now it's just one of the exceptions learners - both foreign and native - have to live with. This has to do with traditional spelling that could mirror, or attempt to mirror, the spelling used by the language the word was borrowed from "ph" is, in the vast majority of cases, indicates Greek origin coupled with Latin abuse and, sometimes, the Norman French delivery service ;.
The hard "h" went to where the woodbine twines centuries ago, but the spelling persists, and we're reluctant to change it because it's dear to us. The explanations above are correct; however, I would like to add that some of the spellings such as the "gh" in words like "night" occur because of obsolete letters in English now.
If I recall, the letter yogh was used in this situation and others with "gh", but that letter is now obsolete.
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