14 November, 2004

A perverse language

The sentence: "He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas" contains seven spellings of the 'ee' phoneme.
Conversely, there are nine pronunciations of the letters 'ough' in:
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

[From OjoHaven]