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Inconsistent sounds for the same spelling, as in: tough, cough, through, thorough, bough, dough.
All those stupid English place names: Cholmondeley, Leicester, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire.
Or how about all the words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations.
etc.
Old joke. You can tell a contractor from a chemist based on how they pronounce 'unionized.'
I actually have a list somewhere of all these that I have come across and remembered to write down, sort of a game I play I guess. I haven’t tried to sit down and find all the possible examples of this (that’d be no fun), just stumble across them over time. Anyway the list is longer than you would expect, and now I have to add Invalid!
Yeah, there are tons of these.
Don't forget Towcester! I find it very funny that there's a town called Toaster.
Loughborough!