Ough

Английское сочетание букв ough насчитывает свыше десятка вариантов произношения:

1. awe: thought, bought, fought, brought, ought, sought, nought, wrought (обычно так читается перед /t/, кроме слова drought /draʊt/)
2. uff: enough, rough, tough, slough, Clough, chough
3. ooh: through, slough
4. oh: though, although, dough, doughnut, broughm, Ough, furlough, Greenough, thorough
5. off: cough, trough
6. ow: bough, plough, sough
7. ou: drought, doughty, Stoughton
8. uh: Scarborough, borough, thorough (alt), thoroughbred, Macdonough, Poughkeepsie
9. up: hiccoughed
10. oth: trough
11. ock: lough, hough
12. oc[h] (с придыханием): lough
13. ahf: Gough
14. og: Coughlin (также #5)