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Originally Posted by komitsuki
Thank the GVS (Great Vowel Shift) in the British history between and around 1450 and 1750.
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I actually read a linguistics article a couple years ago in which a linguist had devised a set of phonetic/orthographic rules for English that describes with about 97-98% accuracy how to pronounce English words. It's just that the rule set was a lot more complicated than something like Spanish.