>>>>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?
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>No :-)
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>a pronunciatoion rule with no exceptions would be an exception.

OK, so we've found the one rule in english which has no exceptions, and it says "all rules but this one have exceptions". That's a start.