You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

Well, there are many surprising features of Polish orthography, final consonant devoicing is one of them. If one gets more technical (or more precise) they would say that Polish is mostly phonemic, as there is a constant correspondence between phonems and graphemes.

So is Polish. Altho arguably it may be harder for an English person to wing it.

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