words

I’m glad as hell I don’t have to learn English...

i before e except after c... doesn't explain science or their?

ough...

rough, tough, enough (stuff, cuff)

though, dough (throw, stow)

through (do, dew, boo)

thought, ought, bought, dreadnought, brought, (naught, caught, juggernaut) ( $1.00 to anyone using all of these properly, in the same order, in one coherent sentence. "I thought I ought to have bought a dreadnought and brought it along; yet all was for naught for it was caught by a juggernaut." doesn't count)

cough (off, doff)

bough (endow, cow)

drought [not the variant] (route, out, bout, doubt, about)

ocean, emotion, emission

would – wood
root – route
toe – tow
knee – nee
know – no
so – sew
far – fire (you have to live in the South to get this one)
fare – fair
rout – route
not – knot
no – know
bourn – born
their - there - they're

raise - raze

and consider ... file ...
fingernail file
rank and file or single file
file folder, file it away, brown file, or round file
file gumbo (French, Arcadian, Cajun)
not to mention the shrewd person type of file.

I'd just as soon learn Swahili using sign language.