You can frequently do that in English too. Of course there are exceptions, but if anything it's typically because of words/names from other languages. In my ex

You can frequently do that in English too. Of course there are exceptions, but if anything it's typically because of words/names from other languages. In my experience learning Spanish, their loan words are Spanish-ized, being made to be pronounced and spelled in a format that makes more sense in Spanish. Whereas in English, the pronunciation and spelling is usually taken more directly from the source, so you get a bunch of instances where a word's spelling doesn't really match its pronunciation.