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Me: English orthography is the worst. There is no language that has a worse way of writing words that looks nothing like they sound.
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French: "Wingles" is pronounced " [vɛ̃ɡl]"
@peterb It reminds me a lady who was handing out the Bible in the street. I asked her for her nationality. She answered "German". I guess she imagined that for a French person a German has the same accent as en English person. I told her I already had a Bible; Anxiously she asked me which one. I answered: "the Saint James Version". As a good French person I pronounced : [sɛ̃t]. She corrected : [sint]. I smiled. She was English. It's not nice to lie.
@fl What a story! Why would she lie about that?