German has fewer weird consonant clashes than English... Lots of common English words tend to lose their vowel sounds when spoken out loud - "squirrel" is notor

German has fewer weird consonant clashes than English... Lots of common English words tend to lose their vowel sounds when spoken out loud - "squirrel" is notorious, but "turle", "hurdler", "wyrm" and suchlike are very light on vowel sounds compared to their German equivalents...