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Old 05-01-2006, 04:20 PM   #291
dar512
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Originally Posted by Brianna
how come "daughter" and "laughter" don't rhyme? Huh? Stupid fricking English language.
I suspect you already know the answer to this one. It's because English is the melting pot of languages. We've picked up words from everywhere. An informative and quite entertaining book on the subject is The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way.
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