So we Googled it of course, and here’s how it’s pronounced: As New Horizons propels on towards the Kuiper Belt, we read it all the time, but just never say it out loud.
Yet another example of the absurdity of English pronunciation.The other day, the redOrbit team was sitting around and it suddenly dawned on us: We didn’t know how to pronounce the Kuiper part of the Kuiper Belt! How embarrassing. How? The gh is pronounced like the gh in tough, the o is pronounced like the o in women, and the ti is pronounced like ti in the word nation. Your children might enjoy the challenge of reading through the entire poem (if they can make it all the way through - it's tough!)īy the way, if you're wondering how to pronounce ghoti from the graphic at the top of this post, it's actually pronounced the same as fish. You can read the full text of The Chaos here, or listen to it being read aloud on Librivox here.
Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough? Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. Here are the opening lines of "The Chaos": Gerard Nolst Trenité, who recognized that the English language was somewhat of an anomaly when it comes to pronunciation, wrote a poem called "The Chaos." The 300-line poem highlighted the complexity of English pronunciation - in an almost Dr.
But in actual practice, there are so many exceptions to most of those "rules" that they end up being something closer to a suggestion.Įarly in the twentieth century a Dutchman named Dr. Sure, as homeschoolers we like to entertain the idea that there are actually English spelling and pronunciation "rules" that we can teach our children to follow all the time. Many English words, due to their roots in a variety of languages such as French, Greek, German, and Latin, are known to be exceptionally hard to spell and pronounce correctly.
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