[lloeki]

> But "chs" is just nonsensical. The idea that it would sound like "sh" is baffling

In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh and nobody bats an eye, I don't think it's that outlandish that someone once read it as fuch-sia, incorrectly splitting it compared to the original.

In the language French, fuchsia is unequivocally read something more like few-shia, and I'd bet that even though it comes from German Fuchs-ia (fooks-ia) English has picked it up from the French side.

If you find such a loanword weird, don't you dare try reading Japanese.

https://aethermug.com/posts/the-beautiful-dissociation-of-th...

[soiltype]

> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh

No, it's not. Unless you think the "n" in french is pronounced "nt".

[lloeki]

Fine, and legit. I get what I deserve for not looking it up!

Scaramouch and crochet though.

[crazygringo]

Sure, and cache and cloche.

But the question here is chs, not ch. Which though rare, is widely understood to be a kind of guttural sound or "k" sound followed by an s. In -uchs or -ichs coming from German.

Not the "sh" sound in fuchsia.

[majoe]

Damn, I always thought Fuchsia is just a colour, but today I learned

  - Fuchsia is a flower
  - which is named after a German botanist (Leonhart Fuchs)
  - Fuchsia in English is pronounced completely different than in German. 
  - Google is surprisingly bad at naming their products

[crazygringo]

> In the word "french" C H is pronounced sh

It's not, though.