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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/