pronounce
Original: pronounce on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Student (a person with short dark hair, raising a hand): "Teacher, how do you pronounce 'O-U-G-H'?"
Teacher (a woman with curly hair and glasses, seated at a desk): "You have to know what's before it. It could be cough, bough, tough, hiccoug, through, though... You really just need to memorize each word and not think about the letters."
Caption below the comic:
Linguistic fun fact: English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals.
Votey:
Caption: "IN A FEW CENTURIES:"
Below it, inside a panel, is the word "OUGH" rendered as a single stylized brushstroke logograph resembling a Chinese character.
Student (a person with short dark hair, raising a hand): "Teacher, how do you pronounce 'O-U-G-H'?"
Teacher (a woman with curly hair and glasses, seated at a desk): "You have to know what's before it. It could be cough, bough, tough, hiccoug, through, though... You really just need to memorize each word and not think about the letters."
Caption below the comic:
Linguistic fun fact: English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals.
Votey:
Caption: "IN A FEW CENTURIES:"
Below it, inside a panel, is the word "OUGH" rendered as a single stylized brushstroke logograph resembling a Chinese character.
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: A student raises a hand and asks a curly-haired teacher seated at a desk, "Teacher, how do you pronounce 'O-U-G-H'?" The teacher replies that you have to know what's before it, since it could be cough, bough, tough, hiccough, through, or though, and concludes, "You really just need to memorize each word and not think about the letters." A caption beneath reads: "Linguistic fun fact: English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals." Votey (aftercomic): Above a panel labeled "IN A FEW CENTURIES:" the letters "OUGH" have been drawn as a single bold brush-stroke logograph styled like a Chinese character, joking that English will eventually become a pictographic writing system.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.