Quote Originally Posted by whiteflags View Post
>> On a side note, the word "close" is a great example of the inconsistency of English.

Well we're still using a completely phonetic alphabet, homophones are always going to be hard.
It's actually a homograph - homophones have different spellings but the same pronunciation. And I would argue that English is hardly a phonetic language (whereas Spanish, for example, is almost completely phonetic).