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Words in english suck!

Poor, pour, pore

Their, there, they're

Do, doo, due, dew, deu
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Abstraction · 61-69, M
Yes, the spelling is such that 'spelling homework' is totally necessary for children. In most languages they are spelled the way they sound. English spelling is a mess.

Irish Gaelic? Anybody's guess. They put in all these extra letters and then it only sounds like 2-3 of them out of the 7 letters in the word.