When Harriet Mitchell moved to Portugal, she realised that she didn't understand Portuguese - even though she had taken ...

In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go.

Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

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