On 08/09/2020 04:37 PM, T wrote:
A lot of words are also not pronounced the way they
are spelled. This is because we borrow from so many
other languages and why English is so hard to pick
up as a second language.

That's why I really like German. The compound nouns can be clunky but
there are no surprises.

I was curious about Yosemite. I never thought about it but it doesn't
work in Spanish. Supposedly it's a pejorative Miwok term for Paiutes up
the line of Navajo which supposedly was derived from the Hopi word for
'head bashers'.