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by kldavis4 981 days ago
I think it has to do with being morphophonemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography#Morphopho...

"This means that the spelling reflects to some extent the underlying morphological structure of the words, not only their pronunciation. Hence different forms of a morpheme (minimum meaningful unit of language) are often spelt identically or similarly in spite of differences in their pronunciation."