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Rules help a long as they are predominantly consistent. When a rule is significantly inconsistent then it will lead to confusion. For example, what rule can be applied to the double "o" sound in English? The words: food, blood, took, foot, moon, stool, and many other double "o" words are...

Radrook wrote: Why do American speakers of English have so much difficulty pronouncing the Spanish letter "a" in the name Diaz when they don't have any whatsoever with it in names like Douglas, Thomas, Caesar. Neither do they seem to have trouble with it when saying: "buenos dias". ...