n-o-u-g-h-t

Updated: August 1, 2026

Conscious of the puzzling presence of certain silent consonants and vowels, The Boy thus set it down: "D-O, dough, N-O-U-G-H-T, nut doughnut!" and he went up head in a class of one, neither teacher nor pupil perceiving the marvellous transposition.

Laurence Hutton - A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs