^^ Appropriate username, given the current discussion.
People who pronounce the "r" in "foyer".
Please, for the love of god, tell me you don't pronounce the "t" in "fillet".
Truly, the one at fault here is whoever decided to add all these extra letters to the words when they don't want people to pronounce them.
That would be the French, who have wreaked havoc on the English language.
Relatively speaking, maybe, but every variety of English is terrible at it.
(My native language is Spanish, where words are pronounced by the simple act of making the sound associated with each letter, in the other they are written, with a handful of exceptions where you have to consider two or three letters a time, and even then the exceptions are always pronounced the same way. You have no idea how insane English spelling looks from that perspective.)
It doesn't help that English is essentially Frankenstein's monster in language form, nor that Anglophone cultures have historically been rather pretentious about language and spellings (which, in modern terms, has carried over in the form of feeling sophisticated when we use overly complicated spellings in lieu of practicality). English has never been particularly proud of its Germanic origins.
How old were you when you first started learning English? I always assumed you grew up bilingual, being that your spelling and grammar are better than that of most Native speakers.
Edit: On the plus side, we don't have to deal with gendered nouns. So at least there's that.
