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What gets me is how we have no way to spell these out yet they sound like words when we say them.

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Meanwhile in the English alphabet (I call it that because it was made in England especially for use with the English language... and I hate eponyms, but it's usually called Shavian or the Shaw alphabet)...

Ado, up, ooze and yew (𐑩, 𐑳, 𐑵 𐑯 𐑿) are named with an example of how they're pronounced, and all are equivalent to different usages of the Latin 'u'.

Yea, if and eat (𐑘, 𐑦 𐑯 𐑰) are named with an example of how they're pronounced, and all are equivalent to different usages of the Latin 'y'.

Woe (𐑢) is named with an example of how it's pronounced, and is equivalent to the Latin 'w'.

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U sounds like You

Y sounds like Why

W sounds like Double You.

There, spelled em out for ya!

The letter 'h' doesn't have an h sound in it (at least in American accents), and the letter 'q' doesn't have a q sound in it. (It's kyoo, not quoo.)

1 out of 3 ain’t bad

I'm surprised this got past the filters. Oddities of language are against the rules.

Then there's these... — 'c' starts with an s-sound, ends with an e-sound, and is used like s and k, so why do we need it at all? — 'f, l, m, n, s, and x' start with an e-sound, then have their own ending sounds — 'g' and j starts with a sound that sounds like the other, so why do we need both? — 'h' starts with an a-sound — 'q' starts with a k-sound and finishes with a 'y' and 'w' sounds... get rid of it, too

Funetiks... hu needz it eneeway? Any other weirdness?