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   Yoïn van Spijk (yvanspijk@toot.community)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 00:24:21 JST Yoïn van Spijk

   Why is 'laugh' written with -ugh while it ends with an [f] sound?

   It's because the spelling 'laugh' reflects how the word was pronounced in Late Middle English, some 500 years ago.

   Click the video to listen to a phonetic reconstruction of how this verb evolved from 3rd-century BC Proto-Germanic to modern-day Standard English.

   The Middle English to Early Modern English stages are based on the dialect of the region of London.