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Pronunciation

Why are BONE and DONE pronounced differently?

Re: Pronunciation

Who knows? If we pronounced bone like done it would sound like bread.

Re: Pronunciation

Good question!

English is full of examples like that. Sometimes, they even have the same spelling and mean the same thing:

I READ books (REED)
I READ a book (RED)

You just have to live with it!