As a parent I too have experienced the frustration with English.<p>I want to teach my daughter some foundational principles from which to build a predictive model, but with English the insanity seems to begin immediately.<p>Some letters have multiple sounds, like C and G.
Some sounds have multiple representations, like DG&#x2F;J and KS&#x2F;X.
Some letters don&#x27;t have their sound in their name, like W and Y.
Reading phonetically is a technique that only works until it doesn&#x27;t;  silent characters, partially anglicized loan words, etc.<p>So while I&#x27;m trying to teach all this, I&#x27;m also doing my own discovery of what a qwerty-cubed language I&#x27;m dealing with. I never realized how broken the written language is until I tried to show it to someone.