Words with OUGH/AUGH

Each short vowel has to be spelled with one single letter.
If any short vowel is spelled with two or three vowel letters combination, it should be regarded as an exception to be modifyed.
The "gh" digraph should be respelled with f or ff when it sounds like /f/.

AUGH-related words

Spellings of words where "-augh-" has "af" sound

draught	--- draft
laugh	--- laff
laughter	--- lafter

Spellings of words where "-augh-" has au/aw sound
--- ex. aught, caught, daughter, distraught, fraught, haughty, manslaughter, mistaught, naught, naughty, onslaught, self-taught, slaughter, taught, uncaught, untaught.

Traditional Spelling	--- Simpler Spelling with "gh" dropped
aught	--- no change(?)
caught	--- caut
daughter	--- dauter, dawter
distraught	--- distraut
fraught	--- fraut
haughty	--- hauty
manslaughter	--- manslauter
mistaught	--- mistaut
naught	--- naut
naughty	--- nauty
onslaught	--- onslaut
self-taught	--- self-taut
slaughter	--- slauter
taught	--- taut
uncaught	--- uncaut
untaught	--- untaut

For more -augh- words, please visit http://www.morewords.com/contains/augh/.

OUGH-related words

bough --- no change
plough --- plow

hiccough --- hiccup

cough --- coff
trough --- troff

chough --- (chuff)(Homophones exist.)
enough --- enuff
rough --- ruff
tough --- tuff

dough --- doh
doughnut --- donut
furlough --- furlow, furloe(?)
although --- altho
though --- tho

through --- thru

thorough --- (thoro)
borough --- (boro)

OUGHT-related words

Insted of "nought", we often use "naught". But we cannot use "aught" for "ought", both of which should be retained.

Words such as "bought", "brought", "fought", "sought", "thought", and "wrought" rhyme. These rhyme with "caught" and "taught", too.
(--- Optionally, respell "ough" as "au", as to these words.)

Traditional Spelling	--- Simpler Spelling with "gh" dropped
afterthought	--- afterthaut
besought	--- besaut
bought	--- baut
brought	--- braut
forethought	--- forethaut
fought	--- faut
nought	--- naut
overwrought	--- overwraut
sought	--- saut
thought	--- thaut
wrought	--- wraut

However, these two words below hav no analogy to the above-mentioned words.
doughty --- dowty
drought --- drout

Links

OUGH: American English pronunciation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJmLHS4NpPA

VOWEL SPELLING PATTERNS OF ENGLISH

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Avoid split digraphs.(Derivatives are affected.)

Split digraphs : a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e.

Why split? Why not put them together?

Why not ae, ee, ie, oe, ue? They wood merge with "polite vowels".

(However, "nice" cannot be "niec". Wood be "nyce".)

Avoid "split digraphs". (Derivatives are affected.)

◎a-e⇒ae (make→maek)

◎e-e⇒ee (extreme→extreem)

◎i-e⇒-y-e (nice→nyce)

◎o-e⇒oe (home→hoem)

◎u-e⇒ue (cute→cuet)

Retain the dubbled consonant letters occasionally.

Retain the dubbled consonant letters in words when followed by endings such as -e, -ed, -en, -er, -est, -et, -ing, -a, -o, -y. For example: steppe, missed, sudden, supper, biggest, bonnet, cutting, gonna, hippo, happy, etc.

Retain the dubbled consonant letters at word end. For example: add, butt, err, inn, jazz, miss, off, purr, sell, etc.

Fix "GH" when it sounds like "ff"/f/.

cough == coff

enough == enuff

laugh == laff

rough == ruff

tough == tuff

trough == troff

Fix "CH" when it sounds like /k/.

archive == arkive

chameleon == cameleon

chaos == caos

chaotic == caotic

character == caracter

Optionally, fix "PH" when it has the /f/ sound.

Optionally, use "f" for the "ph" when it has the /f/ sound.

apostrophe == apostrofy

catastrophe == catastrofy

cenotaph == cenotaf

elephant == elefant

epitaph == epitaf

phantom == fantom

photograph == fotograf

sophisticate == sofisticate

telephone == telefoen

(However, we retain "phat" and "phishing", for example)

Not every silent letter will be cut.

Remoove surplus letters. Not every silent letter will be cut. Retain initial letters. Retain ck, tch, and wh.

alignment == (alinement)

asthma == asma

beauty == beuty

bureaucracy == burocracy

chaos == caos

comb == coam ("Cut one, add one.")

feather == fether

juice == juice (to avoid a split digraph "u_e")

juicy == juicy (to avoid a split digraph "u_e")

knight == knight (Retain an initial silent letter.)

night == night (Retain a mixed trigraph "-igh".)

pleasure == plesure

ready == reddy ("Cut one, add one.")

realm == relm

steady == steddy ("Cut one, add one.")

tomb == toom ("Cut one, add one.")

womb == woom ("Cut one, add one.")