Sure, they're the exception, but the sheer volume of exceptions is staggering compared to Swedish (and Swedish is pretty bad imo!). Look at the simple sentence

Sure, they're the exception, but the sheer volume of exceptions is staggering compared to Swedish (and Swedish is pretty bad imo!). Look at the simple sentence I wrote naturally above. There are so many violations of "sounding out" logic there! "Sure" should reasonably be spelled "shur", "they're" is a big topic in itself, c vs s spelling is all over the place, silent e at the end of words randomly, "compared" has a silent e IN the word because you have to know that it comes from "compare". And writing this explanation of the problems, I had to use even more words that are illogical, like: sentence, wrote, there (not counting words with c for s).