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Why does English have so many ways to spell
one sound?
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I'm talking about the EH vowel. We can spell it with E, like in bed.
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We can spell it with EA, like in head. We can spell it AI, like in said.
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And also IE, like in friend.
We can spell it AY, like in says.
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Now these two get weird, EO like in leopard and U in bury.
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We can even spell it A consonant E, like in the
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word share. Now this is a little different
because the letter R does change the vowel,
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but if you look it up in a dictionary
you're going to see the symbol for EH.
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