Re^3: OT: Re^2: Another day, another nit

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.

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Re^4: OT: Re^2: Another day, another nit by CountOrlok (Friar) on Dec 21, 2005 at 06:29 UTC
Reminds me of George Bernard Shaw's comment that the made up word "ghoti" could be pronounced "fish" (gh from trough, o from women, and ti from nation. -imran	[reply]
Re: OT: Re^2: Another day, another nit by benizi (Hermit) on Dec 21, 2005 at 17:39 UTC
"Une ville" versus "une fille", par example. In the opposite direction (one pronunciation, multiple spellings), the following (from french.about.com) demonstrates the problem. All of these are pronounced similarly: parlerai, été, c'est, peiner, frapper, vous avez	[reply]