B2 LISTENING TESTS8 questions · 全部题目
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MP3When Christian missionaries arrived in England, they started to use spellings that didn’t reflect how words were pronounced.
Words like cough, enough, though or thought were originally pronounced with the same sound at the end.
When the printer was invented, the changes in pronunciation had finished.
The pronunciation of English vowels changed a lot.
A big part of modern spelling is due to how words were pronounced in the past or how they were spelled in French.
Latin started influencing spelling in the late 1500s, when English spelling was still undergoing big changes.
Latin was responsible for the introduction of letters that are written but not pronounced.
The pronunciation of the word colonel comes from Italy.
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