377: -gh- Dec 20, 2015

Many words have a silent 'gh' which seems useless. Some people write 'tho' because it seems more natural, but the letters, 'gh' did serve a purpose once. The 'gh' was once written as a 'ch', which as is still the case in German, is pronounced as a glottal 'h'. Soon the h-sound was replaced with nothing more than mere air escaping the lungs, but the 'gh' remained.