What about the English words that don't sound phonetically the way they are written? You know the ones, give us some examples. Also, the way posh people pronounce certain words differently from working class people. A working place person would say 'pass' as p -ass'
a posh person would say 'parse.' I notice in the posh pronunciations there is the introduction of the 'r'.
I believe the English spelling is really very difficult. The French, the Russian, the Spanish spelling is quite easy. But English! For example, some words I see right now: disguised, loyalty, allegiance, convalesce, rhetoric, conc
eal and conc
eive, consciousness, aggression, ancestors, consequences, yield, pursue. And pronunciation: expertise (why not pronounce it as -tais-?), catastrophe (why not -trouf-?), discontinuity is difficult to guess how to pronounce.