If you think English is bad with it's non-phonetic spellings, don't even think of looking at Gaelic! As just one example, the River Sgitheach in Ross-shire. Have a guess at how it's pronounced before I let you know (BTW, this is one of the easier ones to guess).

David Shaw

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 14:31 , <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 8:47 AM Jim Catchpole - jlcatchpole at googlemail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Not to mention oddball cases like flammable and inflammable where two words that should be opposites mean the same thing.

Trying to teach my 13 year old english spelling (which is often not phonetic in any respect)