No I don't, but perhaps you read something into my post that made you think that.
Point taken on the examples you posted. I'm all too aware that our language has lots of words that are exceptions to the normal rules of phonetics.
"Ghoti" was my mom's favorite spelling of the word, 'fish'.
“ghoti” though is a Bernard Shaw contrivance. “gh”
is pronounced “f” only finally, and “ti” is “sh”
only with “on”
Ping to my post 74. Ough follows the rules if you know them. It is not an exception.