>>>>I think you mean "often" :)
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>Speaking something and spelling it can be confusing.
>>
>>Here, I've laid out almost all the rules, with examples, at http://ndragan.com/langsr/gnorools_O.html (that's for O, but there's the other 25 too). Now you only need to know which rule applies when.
>
>Americans did not speak English. They only speak a conglomerate of other languages.

Ditto for english in any other country. I've had the same trouble understanding it when spoken by an Ozzie and by some of my then neighbors in the south - the consonants are omitted or not distinguishable. But the rules for reading are not so different across the variants - equally rich with confusion.