ch
This combination of letters has some eccentric rules.
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At times the CH is pronounced as a K. Such as in school, cholera, chasm,
chemical,
charisma, chemo, Christ, Christian, chrome, chronic, chronicle, and others.
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At times the CH is pronounced as SH. Mostly in words of French origin: Such
as champaign, chandelier, chauffeur, chef, parachute, and chute.
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On some the H in CH is silent: Such as chinch where in the first CH, the H
is silent but not in the second CH. In yacht the CH is silent.
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Choir is odd in that it sounds exactly as quire. It would be more likely to
be spelled as kwire.
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Happily is that most cases CH gets pronounced as CH. How normal is that.
cc
This one takes on two sets of rules.
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in words such as occurrence, occur, occasion, and others CC is pronounced
as a K.
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In words such as success, succeed, and eccentric, and others the first C
is pronounced as a K and the second C as an S.
wh
This combination of letters has some eccentric rules.
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In words such as who the W is silent and the word gets pronounced as Hu.
In the word whole the W is also silent, and it gets pronounced as hole.
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In what, where, when, why, wheat, whence, whack, whim, white, wheel,
whine, whip, whet, whit and others the H is silent. Thus whine gets pronounced
exactly as wine, whet as wet, whit as wit, wheel as weal, whence as wince, whey
as way and so forth.
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