Many words are spelt the way they were pronounced when the word was invented. However, that becomes interesting when you have hundreds of regional dialects and

Many words are spelt the way they were pronounced when the word was invented. However, that becomes interesting when you have hundreds of regional dialects and accents, mash it through 2 different languages and 500+ years since the spelling was set down. Take for example the word resume. Without the tick mark it means to restart something. Yet it can also mean your work history with and without the tick mark now. That is because it is a pain to type that word out with the tick mark. So the spelling of the word is changing yet pronounced in 2 wildly different ways. You have found one of those 'transition' words. Where it is changing but the spelling has not caught up yet. This comes up from the fact that the current alphabet has 26 letters yet there are at least 40+ phonemes. This weirdness comes up when 'english' borrows a word from another language that has one of those 'others'. The alphabet just does not really cover all of them in all cases. So oddities happen, and accents happen so you get weird bits like that. We paper over it with smashing together letters. But again because of accents that does not always work well.