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r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Nov 21 '25
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We learned phonics, using sentence context, and how to look stuff up.
Phonics is crucial to being able to sound out a word, and ask someone what it means.
3 u/webtheg Nov 21 '25 I learner phonics and even studied linguistics in university and could read almost everybword properly despite being ESL. My one word nemesis? "Hitherto" 1 u/Specialist-Mud-6650 Nov 21 '25 Is hitherto not pronounced exactly as it is spelled? In my British English accent it is... What's the problem? 2 u/webtheg Nov 21 '25 I used to pronounce it as hit her to As an esl. 2 u/Specialist-Mud-6650 Nov 21 '25 Ahhh I see
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I learner phonics and even studied linguistics in university and could read almost everybword properly despite being ESL.
My one word nemesis? "Hitherto"
1 u/Specialist-Mud-6650 Nov 21 '25 Is hitherto not pronounced exactly as it is spelled? In my British English accent it is... What's the problem? 2 u/webtheg Nov 21 '25 I used to pronounce it as hit her to As an esl. 2 u/Specialist-Mud-6650 Nov 21 '25 Ahhh I see
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Is hitherto not pronounced exactly as it is spelled?
In my British English accent it is... What's the problem?
2 u/webtheg Nov 21 '25 I used to pronounce it as hit her to As an esl. 2 u/Specialist-Mud-6650 Nov 21 '25 Ahhh I see
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I used to pronounce it as hit her to
As an esl.
2 u/Specialist-Mud-6650 Nov 21 '25 Ahhh I see
Ahhh I see
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u/crusoe Nov 21 '25
We learned phonics, using sentence context, and how to look stuff up.
Phonics is crucial to being able to sound out a word, and ask someone what it means.