>>>suit - is not a garment, it's a legal process
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>>>motion - not an action in which something moves, but a request of one side in the process
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>>its usually clear what they mean because of the context. Don't think so much about the individual words think about the sentence.
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>Thinking about something else, I remembered this thread as the best place from which to start... a bit of a thread drift, slightly sideways at a mild angle.
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>I tried to remember a single rule of pronunciation of written english text, and, of course, couldn't. Then I thought I could google it out, and I can't find the right words. I tried "english pronuncuiation rule without exception" and I'm, of course, getting all the rules and their exceptions, or just laments about having too many exceptions to the rules...
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>So, is there a way to search properly? Or, to make this shorter, perhaps someone knows ONE rule of pronunciation for which there are no exceptions?

No :-)

a pronunciatoion rule with no exceptions would be an exception.