That&#x27;s because what tantalor left out is that anglophones started misspelling that word in the 17th century, when it was actually spelled &quot;key&quot; from old French &quot;kay&quot;.<p>So it&#x27;s not so much a word that you go &quot;ah I&#x27;m so clever I can pronounce it right&quot;, but more one that you go &quot;some people along the way started misspelling this too often and the people who knew better didn&#x27;t do a good job in correcting them&quot;.<p>And why should I know how to pronounce a word that current anglophones don&#x27;t know how to spell? It&#x27;s a tongue-in-cheek question, people.