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2. Ough (orthography) - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. English orthography - Wikipedia

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   Ough itself is a word, an exclamation of disgust similar to ugh, though rarely known or used. The following are typical pronunciations of this string of letters: / oʊ / (as in so) in though and dough / ʌ f / (as in cuff) in tough, rough, enough, and the name Hough / ɒ f / (as in off) in trough, cough, and Gough

4. Category:English orthography - Wikipedia

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   List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature; ... Ough (orthography) Oxford spelling; P. English possessive; Pronunciation respelling for English;

5. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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   Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).

6. English-language spelling reform - Wikipedia

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   Likewise, many graphemes in English have multiple pronunciations and decodings, such as ough in words like thr ough, th ough, th ough t, thor ough, t ough, tr ough, and pl ough. There are 13 ways of spelling the schwa (the most common of all phonemes in English), 12 ways to spell /ei/ and 11 ways to spell /ɛ/. These kinds of incoherences can ...

7. Gh (digraph) - Wikipedia

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   In the dominant dialects of modern English, gh is almost always either silent or pronounced /f/ (see Ough). It is thought that before disappearing, the sound became partially or completely voiced to [ɣx] or [ɣ], which would explain the new spelling — Old English used a simple h — and the diphthongization of any preceding vowel.

8. Middle English phonology - Wikipedia

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   The variable outcome, along with other variable changes and the ambiguity of the Middle English spelling ou (either /ou̯/ or /uː/ in Early Middle English, accounts for the numerous pronunciations of Modern English words in -ough-(e.g. though, through, bough, rough, trough, thought, with -ough-pronounced /ou/, /uː/, /au/, /ʌf/, /ɒf/, /ɔː ...

9. Tetragraph - Wikipedia

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   English does not have tetragraphs in native words (the closest is perhaps the sequence -ough in words like through), but chth and phth are true tetragraphs when found initially in words of Greek origin such as chthonic and phthisis. Phonemes spelled with multiple characters often indicate that either the phoneme or the script is alien to the ...