I confess! Being a non-native speaker, I struggle a lot especially when I come across a new word. And I wonder how do native speakers pronounce perfectly even though they read the word for the very first time. There should be some rule/technique? I'm not sure.

Let's take a case. 

If I see a word having 'ch' for the very first time, how do I guess it? Remember, I don't have dictionary. Nor do I have access to this great site when I encounter that word. For example, 

Take the word 'chariot'. Being a non-native with quite limited knowledge of orthography, I know that 'ch' is pronounced as in 'Charles'

But then, imagine, I came across the word 'charade'. Undoubtedly, for me, it is 'ch (as in Charles)-re-d-s'. But then, actually, 'ch' there is 'sh' (as in Shane). 

It's not just 'ch' but it goes for 'g' as well. 'G' as in 'goat' or 'g' as in 'gymnastic'. Is there any source that teaches how to pronounce a letter if it is placed after/before certain letter? Is there any such rule? The one I remember is when a word ends with 'mb', you don't pronounce 'b'. 'Bomb', 'Comb', 'Tomb' and many other words ending with 'b'.  



There are a few more words that add another nail in the coffin of my pronunciation complexity! 


  penis (pee, and not as in 'pen')  asthma (no 'th' pronounced)  Dengue (dengeee)  and many more...



Question: How do I build lengthwise multi-platform stations?
Answer: There isn't any solution that I can see after puzzling over the image for a while. The only ones that would work would be splitting them by two tiles instead of just one and using a bypass track to get around it, but that would mean you're going up to 2 tiles of width anyway, rendering the issue moot.

The only workable idea that I can come up with is to set them as two different stations and use the "Non-stop" flag for the two different trains (train A to get it to ignore the first station, train B to get it to ignore the second station) but then if your trains happen to get out-of-order you're pretty much up crap creek.

I guess the only real answer is that there is no answer.