Katherine Fung is a Newsweek reporter based in New York City. Her focus is reporting on U.S. and world politics. She has covered the Republican primary elections and the American education system ...

In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go.

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