part of this comes from a fun little stupid historic coincidence 1. the writing of English was (let's call it) standardized 2. not long after (in historic ter

part of this comes from a fun little stupid historic coincidence 1. the writing of English was (let's call it) standardized 2. not long after (in historic terms) society decided to majorly shift/change pronunciation of a good part but not all of the language => so now part of the language fit's it's spelling, and part is shifted away from it in various degrees By re-fitting the spelling to match the pronunciation it could be mostly fixed. That just is sadly not really doable.