That's also very simple: it's the transliteration of the phonetic symbol 'tʃ which represents the soft C sound as in cheese. That's what happens when a languag

That's also very simple: it's the transliteration of the phonetic symbol 'tʃ which represents the soft C sound as in cheese. That's what happens when a language steals a foreign word (Latin in this case) and changes its pronunciation In Latin the way groups of letters are pronounced it's (almost) unambigous, it's a phonetic alphabet itself If you change the pronunciation, that part is lost and you have to rely on recollection instead of recognition It also means that if you don't already know a word you can't be sure on how it is pronounced