We have "eaux" (waters) which sounds like a plain "o". A 4:1 ratio without even the proper letter inside.
We have rules for plurals that split the words 50/50 in the ones that follow the rule and the exceptions.
I always felt that out language books are a few pages rules and then exceptions. The traditional book for conjugation (verbs and their tenses) has one other for regular verbs (the ones you do not use that much), two or three for "less regular ones" and then it is mayhem. Multiplied by 22 tenses.
We have "eaux" (waters) which sounds like a plain "o". A 4:1 ratio without even the proper letter inside.
We have rules for plurals that split the words 50/50 in the ones that follow the rule and the exceptions.
I always felt that out language books are a few pages rules and then exceptions. The traditional book for conjugation (verbs and their tenses) has one other for regular verbs (the ones you do not use that much), two or three for "less regular ones" and then it is mayhem. Multiplied by 22 tenses.