• Glowstick@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There isn’t a single widely-used english dialect that pronounces the g in night.

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      5 months ago

      In case of night this might work, but for words like might it doesnt. Might now becomes orthographically indistinguishable from mite. Right and rite also lose their distinction.