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It's easier for multilingual people to spell English because we might know the origin of a word better. In English language culture, in particular US English culture, it seems almost a virtue to pronounce a word strictly based on its spelling, disregarding its etymology, stem or other things besides the letters that go into it.
I don't mean this as a dig or sarcasm, I mean it. Just like how people sometimes have a fondness for giving some words a strong conjugation when it used to be weak, they have a fondness for giving pronunciation a local touch and smearing things together.
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Google are promoting their microkernel OS all over the place and US Americans are pronouncing it /FYOOzha/.
This could be spelled in myriad different ways, but if you know that in German it's pronounced /FOOKsia/, where the /fooks/ part is for Fuchs, the German word for fox and the family name of the 16th century botanist Dr. Leonhart Fuchs, suddenly there's basically only one way to spell it.
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A comment in /r/humansarespaceorcs just called English "five languages in a trenchcoat".