I don't know what conventions that would be, are you familiar with the poem 'The Chaos'? https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html https://ncf.idallen.com/english.ht

I don't know what conventions that would be, are you familiar with the poem 'The Chaos'? https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html Just one example" " Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe." It seems that any English speaker expecting a certain pronunciation from spelling alone would have quite a hard time.