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                 >   gh  =  /f/
                     cough   enough   laugh

                    ch  =  /k/
                     architect   character   chemist   Christmas   headache
                      toothache   stomach
                    a  =  /e/           .
                     any   many   Thames

                     =
                       /e/
                    ea
                     breakfast   dead   death   head   health   heavy
                     leather   pleasure   read  (past)   ready   bread   sweater
                     instead

                       /el/
                    ea
                      =
                     steak   break   great
                    0  = /a/
                     brother   mother   love   company   come
                     cover   month   money   one   nothing  —  onion
                      other   some   son   stomach   government   wonder
                      worry   London   honey   glove  —  ton

               10   ou  = /a/
                      country   couple   cousin   double   enough   trouble
               11   u=/v/
                      butcher   cushion   puff   push   put

                12   words  pronounced  with  /ai/
                      dial   either   neither   buy   height   idea   iron
                      microphone   biology   science  —  society

                13   strange  spellings:
                    minute  /'minit/   theatre  /@1ata(r)/
                    woman  /'women/   one  /wan/
                    women  /'wimin/   once  /wans/
                    friend  /frend/   two  /tu:/
                    Europe  /‘jyarap/   area  /'earia/
                    Asia  /‘eifa/     heard  /h3:d/
                    Australia  /‘ps'treiia/  =  biscuit  /‘biskit/
                    bicycle  /'parsikV/   busy  /'bizi:/
                    blood  /blad/     fruit  /fru:t/
                    foreign  /‘foran/   moustache  /ma'sta:f/
                    juice  /dzu:s/    heart  fha:t/
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