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I'm tired of linking to this great book on the atrocity of the English language
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Link: https://www.amazon.com/Highly-Irregular-RhymeAnd-Oddities-Language/dp/0197539408

I've linked this several times. Here it is. Just get (and read) this book.

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language

Here's a podcast interview with the author if you're illiterate:

Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
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