This question really asks why English pronunciation appears to be inconsistent. English has its roots in a number of origins. Comb comes from Germanic roots, tomb from Latin to French to Middle English, and bomb from Greek to Latin to Italian to French.
The history of a word lingers in its spelling and pronunciation, much as people retain their accents and other elements of their roots even when they have come a long way from where they began.
Dumb, limb, jamb (as in a door jamb), bomb, tomb, climb, comb, crumb, doubt, plumber, thumb, lamb, numb, womb, succumb.
Comb
bomb, comb, tomb, womb lamb, iamb, jamb limb, dumb, numb barb, garb crab, drab, grab, stab, swab daub
long o
The Noun Comb is a common noun because it is not used a a beard comb or moustache comb.
bomb,comb
Some words that rhyme with Maycomb are tom, bomb, and mom.
The word comb has a long O sound, to rhyme with ohm. Other -omb words (tomb, womb) have a long U (OO) sound instead.
bomb
comb has a long o sound
No. Comb has a long vowel sound - KOHM - Come has more of a U sound - KUM
The O has a short O (aah) sound, as in the rhyming words cod, god, nod, pod, rod, sod, and shod. The same sound is heard in the A words squad and wad.
debt, doubt, crumb, dumb, numb, thumb, plumber, tomb, lamb, climb, bomb, comb, subtle
Arab, bomb, comb, dumb, flub, glob, herb, iamb, jamb, knob, lamb, pleb, stab, tomb, verb, womb
bomb, comb, climb, climber, crumb, debt, doubt, dumb, lamb, limb, plumb, plumber, thumb, subtle, womb, tomb.
There are so many different types of combs. There's a rose comb, pea comb, single comb, v-shaped comb, walnut comb and a buttercup comb just to name a few.
tomb, comb, and bomb