[SoftTalker]

No, "gh" is usually silent in English spelling.

[jhauris]

Laugh, trough, tough, rough. Maybe it should be "Vawfan"

[oblio]

Ghoul.

[card_zero]

Hiccough.

Loughborough, which has it both ways. (Apocryphally pronounced by Australians as "Loogahbaroogah".)

[toast0]

augh is not as common as ough, but either one can make any sound in the whole syllabary.

How about Sequim, WA. Guess how to pronounciate that.

[philiplu]

Or Puyallup, WA. Those two are definite shibboleth tests in the PNW.

[bluepeter]

Pend Oreille is the eastern WA test for western WA.

[canucker2016]

and for our eastern neighbours: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (and Boise too)

My years of french class steered me wrong there.

[shawn_w]

Des Moines, WA vs Des Moines, IA.