Don't forget "slew", "woo" and "true". English used to be a lot more phonetic that it is now, but a lot of pronunciations changed in the past thousand years, n

Don't forget "slew", "woo" and "true". English used to be a lot more phonetic that it is now, but a lot of pronunciations changed in the past thousand years, not to mention English's propensity to follow other languages down dark alleys, knock them over the heads, steal their words, and pronounce _them_ differently. I love English, but it's a mess.