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Learning the building blocks of words – sounds, their spellings, and word parts

cirrhosis

diarrhoea (UK)

gonorrhoea (UK)

haemorrhage (UK)

haemorrhoid (UK)

pyrrhic

Note that in US English, words like "catarrh" and "myrrh" also belong to this group.

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