French and Catalan aren't pronounced as they are written at all. Both languages have spelling competitions/TV shows. There is an excellent TEDx video where two

French and Catalan aren't pronounced as they are written at all. Both languages have spelling competitions/TV shows. There is an excellent TEDx video where two linguists that are advocating for a reform of the French orthography invent a word and then write a script to list all the ways it can be spelled, following the existing rules of French spelling. The result is 240 ways to spell it. https://youtu.be/5YO7Vg1ByA8?t=266 https://youtu.be/5YO7Vg1ByA8?t=266