Care to map the phonics path from quay to "key"? "kway" seems like the most reasonable pronunciation unless the letters are just meant to be strokes in a pictogram.
That's because what tantalor left out is that anglophones started misspelling that word in the 17th century, when it was actually spelled "key" from old French "kay".
So it's not so much a word that you go "ah I'm so clever I can pronounce it right", but more one that you go "some people along the way started misspelling this too often and the people who knew better didn't do a good job in correcting them".
And why should I know how to pronounce a word that current anglophones don't know how to spell? It's a tongue-in-cheek question, people.
So it's not so much a word that you go "ah I'm so clever I can pronounce it right", but more one that you go "some people along the way started misspelling this too often and the people who knew better didn't do a good job in correcting them".
And why should I know how to pronounce a word that current anglophones don't know how to spell? It's a tongue-in-cheek question, people.