English spelling must drive people nuts when they're trying to learn the language. It's not as bad as Gaelic or Irish or French, when it comes to silent letters or letters used only as signs that Something

In the last 500 years, America had been colonized by the Spanish, French, and British. Cajun people in Louisiana are from the French-speaking region of “Acadia” in Maine and Quebec. Cajun is a pronunciation

I myself no longer think about it, but apparently it is quite unique that we conjugate the word 'yes' in my province. I live in West Flanders, a piece of Belgium close to the coastline. Here in Belgium