Why not, Fone, Filladelfia? Farmacy...Fillip Michael Thomas. Filosophy.
It's to confuse people who learned to read using "Phonics"!
same with the "C" making a "sss" sound
but english just sucks that way...
Cuz if you said "city" with the "ca" you'd get "Kitty" >.>
Eww lol it just looks wrong
As far as I can figure, the "F" sound and the "Ph" sound used to be different sounds.
There was no "F" sound in Greek, it was just a softer "p" sound, which is represented by just one Greek letter and is closer to a regular "p" sound. But it's not the same as a regular "p" sound, which Greek also has.
So when Ancient Roman grammarians translated Greek into Latin, they spelled it "ph" to distinguish it from the regular "p", because they didn't have the letter for it. Fast-forward a few centuries, and people had stopped using the the softer p sound in regular speech, for whatever reason - probably because it was too difficult to pronounce in faster everyday speech - and it sounded enough like the regular "F" sound that it wasn't all that confusing. But the spelling of it stayed around. So all "ph" words where it's pronounced "F" are originally Greek in origin.
You're trying to make sense of the English language? Seriously?
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Those words were from a language that lacked an "F". Specifically, Greek.
Our english language would be so much simpler if everything were spelled phoenetically.
The reason for the "PH" is because the words were borrowed from another language that uses PH for F sound.
For example - the word pharmacy have latin and greek origins. LL pharmacia Gr pharmakeia pharmakon, drug
http://www.yourdictionary.com/pharmacy
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