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    2 years ago

    Bad example, these are all consistent, if unintuitive. Should’ve picked something like Ocean, Motion, and Cushion. Pronounced with fhe same “shun” sound, yet with completely different spelling.

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      2 years ago

      Most of them are the opposite, spelling is the same but pronunciation is different . It’s the ‘ough’

      Ough is a four-letter sequence, a tetragraph, used in English orthography and notorious for its unpredictable pronunciation.[1] It has at least eight pronunciations in North American English and nine in British English, and no discernible patterns exist for choosing among them.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)

      The wind was rough along the lough as the ploughman fought through snow that all the way up to his horse’s houghs, and though he hiccoughed and coughed, he thought only of his work, determined to be thorough. Then when done to his warm home in Loughborough.