Yeah it turns out a whole bunch of English words are spelled more like a linguistic history lesson than anything approaching a useful system of phonetics. It might as well be pictographic with letters being helpful hints at this point. I wish there could be spelling reform in the anglosphere, but it’s hard enough to get people to agree within any one of the majority English-speaking countries, let alone between them.
Finger of Chicken (color) – The Other End Comics (i0.wp.com)
Source: www.kohney.com/comic/finger-of-chicken-color/
Rules for thee but not for saymen (monyet.cc)