In English we have "though" and "trough" where the "gh" is inconsistent. Can you give me a similar example from French. I'm not saying there isn't one but I did try to think of one before posting the reply above and couldn't (mais ma Francais n'est pas trop chaud :).

I think Italian and Spanish have simpler pronunciation rules with less (no?) dependency on position within a word but I think French might still be conistent. update:"ville" and "gentille" ("veel" vs "jontiya") are an example but the fact that nobody else has posted an example makes me think that examples in French are exceedingly rare.

In reply to Re^3: OT: Re^2: Another day, another nit by fergal
in thread Another day, another nit by hv

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