Do colour Vs color/ catalogue Vs catalog etc... sound different phonetically to you also?
To be fair, those different spellings denote different variants of the language, and these words are pronounced differently in British and American English. So yeah, perceiving those as if those sound different is a normal thing, I guess
Edit: ironically, miaow and meow make an identical sound, according to Cambridge Dictionary: ˌmiːˈaʊ
That is assuming they were not using a screen reader that just read ‘image, Ezekiel 23:20’ to them, which is current alt text