>>Hah, Britain!! Cholmondeley = Chumly???
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>The brits have "charming" (strange) ways to pronounce words, but that one is some sort of a record.
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>>There is an old thing about how to pronounce 'GHOTI'. It's pronounced 'fish'.
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>>Take the GH from 'cough', the O from 'women', and the TI from 'nation' -> fish.
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>I like english. It is very concise and can have a lot of nuances (which depend on who is speaking) but it seems to have more exceptions than rules.

Unfortunately, even the exceptions have exceptions. What we need is a good Try..Catch..Finally structure to the English language.