Just spell slaughter as slawter.If slaughter becomes slawter, then what about lawyer and other words with "law" that doesn't sound like law?
There's a lot of reasons why English spelling is bad.
Pronunciations change, and the spellings don't. For example the words knife and knight, once upon a time you'd pronounce the 'k'.
We also borrowed a lot of words from other languages like French especially, Greek, and others without properly changing it.
Japanese doesn't have that issue, but it largely helps they have fewer sounds as well as a strictly phonetic character group.
Yeah English definitely has a lot of history that screw it up, but it's impossible to avoid completely. Would be interesting to see a computer attempt a spelling reform to try to get as few alternate pronunciations as possible. Or better yet, let the computer start from scratch and calculate how many letters are needed to get no alternate pronunciations within standard words.
