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No, "gh" is usually silent in English spelling.

• jhauris 8mo ago
  Laugh, trough, tough, rough. Maybe it should be "Vawfan"
  • oblio 8mo ago
    Ghoul.
    • card_zero 8mo ago
      Hiccough. Loughborough, which has it both ways. (Apocryphally pronounced by Australians as "Loogahbaroogah".)
• toast0 8mo ago
  augh is not as common as ough, but either one can make any sound in the whole syllabary. How about Sequim, WA. Guess how to pronounciate that.
  • philiplu 8mo ago
    Or Puyallup, WA. Those two are definite shibboleth tests in the PNW.
    • bluepeter 8mo ago
      Pend Oreille is the eastern WA test for western WA.
      • canucker2016 8mo ago
        and for our eastern neighbours: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (and Boise too) My years of french class steered me wrong there.
    • shawn_w 8mo ago
      Des Moines, WA vs Des Moines, IA.