This is an All-Eirs English podcast episode 584.

Thorough, though, thought, tough, how to keep them straight in English.

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forward slash tr. a n s c ri p t s s s s s ri p t s Do you get confused between words like thorough and through?

Natives get confused about these too.

Find out how to keep them straight today.

What's up, Michelle on this Wednesday? How you doing?

Oh, I'm good, I'm good. How are you?

Yeah, here we are. I'm doing good,. We're in the middle of August, so you know, moving right through the month. It's crazy, summer's going to come to an end soon. I hope you're fully enjoying your summer. I am, I don't want it to end. I know I know it's been a really good one but

Yeah, we have a still have a few more weeks before a labor day which is kind of the unofficial end of summer right culturally

the end of summer yeah yeah yeah so we have some more time we have some more time not over

yet so I think this is a good time We have some more time. Not over yet.

So I think this is a good time, even though it is August, a lot of people are on vacation.

Today we're going to dig into something sticky and tricky.

And it's a set of tricky words that one of our listeners wrote in to ask about and

these are words that are even confused by natives because they're so similar in the

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