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I don't know if there's a good answer for that question. It's just one of the peculiarities of the English language. - dough = doe. cough = coff. rough = ruff. tough = tuff. It's all a bit weird. Our teacher used to tell us that there were certain words that followed no rules, we'd just have to learn them 'by heart' i.e. memorise them.

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The pronunciation of the word "dough" as "dou" is due to English phonetic patterns. This is because the "gh" in the word is silent and does not affect the pronunciation.

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