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Porgy seems to be the accepted form of the word; but letters of the old, unphonetic kind are poor guides to pronunciation.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various

The new dictionaries greatly simplify the matter of mastering the diacritical marks, and lessen the number needed, by re-writing unphonetic words in simple phonetic spelling.

From How to Teach Phonics by Williams, Lida M.

Thus gradually increasing prominence is given to the discovery of new words by this analytic-synthetic process, and less time to sight word drills, until they are entirely omitted, except for the teaching of unphonetic words.

From How to Teach Phonics by Williams, Lida M.