Not the OP, but consider the following... Of course, you know of odd plurals such as house -> houses vs mouse -> mice. why is womb pronounced "woom" and tomb

Not the OP, but consider the following... Of course, you know of odd plurals such as house -> houses vs mouse -> mice. why is womb pronounced "woom" and tomb "toom" but bomb is not "boom"? gh: tough and laugh (as f) vs thigh (silent) vs ghost (hard g) Why is tear (crying) pronounced the same as tier (levels) but spelled differently when tear (ripping) spelled the same as tear (crying) but pronounced differently? The list of weird English oddities just go on and on. English is just plain weird.