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English is a trash fire. It's a trash fire in pronunciation, in orthography, in grammar, in pretty much ever respect.
But my favourite thing remains 'ough': tough, trough, though, thought, through. All pronounced differently.
I remember years ago seeing someone online saying English beats up other languages in an alley and goes through their pockets for spare grammar.
That was probably spare vocabulary. :)
cough, hiccough (pronounced hiccup), plough
Bough, dough, slough, slough (yes, two different pronunciations!), rough ...
It's a mess, isn't it?
These are not additional pronunciations though.
Bough rhymes with plough, slough rhymes with tough, dough rhymes with though, and slough rhymes with plough or through.
Comb
Tomb
Bomb
Womb