The word ‘monosyllabic’ isn’t monosyllabic.

The word ‘alphabetic’ isn’t alphabetic.

The word ‘palindrome’ isn’t a palindrome.

Sure it is. English just has multiple generations of “phonetic” that overlay, and are not consistent with, one another. It has, if you will, codebases that were forked, re-forked, and then occasionally merged back in after developing on their own for a few centuries, and no official steering committee was ever established. There is semi-official documentation, usually from self-appointed pedants, but even that adjusts as more features are merged in willy-nilly and workarounds emerge.

English spelling is hard not because it lacks any logic, but because this entire language is a case study in modularity and extensibility at all costs.

The word “Onomatopoeia” sound more complicated than what it means.

Yes it is if you understand that “phonetic” is derived from the Phoenician civilization/culture, and that phenoms and phenology naturally derives the ph- sound from the “ph” not the letter “f” just because the Romans were lazy.

Blame your lack of education, not the Phoenicians!

Edit: I apologize— I didn’t intend for this to come so bitchy. I was trying to be sassy and playful, and went overboard. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I need a mnemonic to remember how to spell “mnemonic.”

wtf? yes it is. you just don’t know enough about words

I mean, aren’t we using mostly Latin letters and sounds to spell non-Latin words?

There’s a phonetic English alphabet out there. Some Scottish poet commissioned it years ago.

It is named after him. But I am an uncultured swine and can’t remember who it is at the moment.