Not only is English mashed together from different language families (Romantic and Germanian), it has random ass loan words, phrases, and grammar outside of its phylum. It's why the C in "cyst" is pronounced differently than the one in "cat," then you have bullshit like "tsunami" (Japanese) or "kefir" (Russian, Turkic) that use the same sounds for Cs without having any Cs.
Letting the English escape from their island was a mistake.
The spelling and pronunciation is overall inconsistent to the absurd degree.
Yeah, that happens when you have a Germanic base slathered with french and Latin vocabulary and sprinkled with loanwords from nearly every continent.
And never having a spelling reform.
Jesus Christ, we only invented spelling a few hundred years ago and you want to reform it already?
Not only is English mashed together from different language families (Romantic and Germanian), it has random ass loan words, phrases, and grammar outside of its phylum. It's why the C in "cyst" is pronounced differently than the one in "cat," then you have bullshit like "tsunami" (Japanese) or "kefir" (Russian, Turkic) that use the same sounds for Cs without having any Cs.
Letting the English escape from their island was a mistake.