The words 'Awesome' and 'Awful'?

Aw and awe are not the same but I'll play along. Something can be awesomely huge, gigantic, fearful, magnificent. Indeed, English contradicts itself many times in many ways. Rain, reign, rein. Two, too, to. There, their, they're. Hare, hair, heir. Herb, herb. Minute, minute. Where, wear, wary.