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Those are the non-English words mixed in. Individual letters don’t have sounds, but trigrams do.

• lkbm 2y ago
  Given that that's something like half of our lexicon, you're going to have a heck of a time reading if you can't process any of them, but okay, let's look just at words that come from Old English: food, good rough, dough two, to, too