Comic #6766: pronounce

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Comic Text:

Panel 1:

• Boy with raised hand: “Teacher, how do you pronounce ‘O-U-G-H’?”

Panel 2:

• Teacher responds: “You have to know what’s before it. It could be cough, bough, tough, hiccough, through, though… You really just need to memorize each word and not think about the letters.”

Bottom Caption:

• “Linguistic fun fact: English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals.”