The "gh" digraph in both words originally represented the voiceless velar fricative (as in the "ch" in Scots "loch"), a sound that is largely lost in modern English. As that sound disappeared, in some cases it became "f", in some "h", in others it was just dropped.
Laughter and daughter don’t rhyme
But daughter and slaughter sync fine
So if they tell you to laugh
Beat them to death with a staff
And just claim it was a victimless crime
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Do & Go.
😉
im gonna throw up
The "gh" digraph in both words originally represented the voiceless velar fricative (as in the "ch" in Scots "loch"), a sound that is largely lost in modern English. As that sound disappeared, in some cases it became "f", in some "h", in others it was just dropped.
But daughter and slaughter sync fine
So if they tell you to laugh
Beat them to death with a staff
And just claim it was a victimless crime
It is not that this knot is naught.
(I'm dizzy)
*lawter ensues*
He should be proud.
https://www.thoughtco.com/chaos-by-charivarius-gerard-nolst-trenite-1689544
Sean Bean
Or potăto and tomāto. Eww.
Tell that to your foreign beige neighbor....
The science on that irrefutable.
I never noticed that before!
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Daughter and laughter?