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Pilates?
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If Pilates is pronounced pill art ays, then why isn't Pirates prounced pir art ays?
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The sounds we utter in speech can only be written with an alphabet of 26 letters. This isn't enough letters to cover all the sounds we make, and one letter may have to represent more than one sound, e.g. the letter 'i' in the names Mick and Mike. George Bernard Shaw recommended the use of a 44-letter alphabet that would have solved this problem, but had no takers. We're stuck with our 26 letters. If we think that it makes life difficult for us, think of the stumbling block it presents for foreign students trying to learn English!