why isn't food and good pronounced the same way?

Interesting question.

The great playwright George Bernard Shaw was so incensed about the arbitrariness of English spelling that he suggested spelling fish as ghoti. That might not look fish to you but take the gh from enough, the o from women and the ti from lotion and you are there. There are certainly many oddities of English pronounciation and there is at best a weak relation between English spelling and pronounciation.

Just shows how convoluted the English language is. Seriously, it's derived from a bajillion languages, including Norse and Latin

Because the English language is funny that way. It's inconsistent with pronunciation and rules. For example, the plural of tooth is teeth, but the plural of booth is booths, not beeth.

Because the English language is freaking confusing.

Soooo glad I was born into this language and grew up learning it, instead of learning it as a second language. gahhh what a nightmare.

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It's a bastardized form of the correct pronunciation.

Why do we pronounce lieutenant as "lootenant"

and in the UK they say, "leftenant"?

for the same reason why you pronounce reading (readin newspaper)and reading (place in the uk) differently.

someone decided that tha's the way it should be

it's like read and read. well...not really. ENglish is wierd, but some questions can be left unanswered [:

good luck

Try this one

Pay - Say

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Paid - Said

Huh? What happened?