Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> writes:

1. Consider the "-ough" situation - and I realise this isn't helpful in
a defence of English - where (at least with my pronunciation):

through - ough = oo
thorough - ough = uh
bough - ough = ow
dough - ough = oh
cough - ough = off
rough - ough = uff
ought - ough = or

lough - ough = ok (the Irish equivalent of loch, lake)

Phil
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