I almost feel like English should start from scratch with spelling, There are basically no consistent rules at all. I think we should assign spelling to kindergartners who actually follow the rules of English and spell things like they should be spelled.
Quinoa -> Keen-wa
Ballet -> Baal-Eh
Design -> De-zine
etc.
Geoduck
Colonel
Yacht
The whole ought/bough/dough/thorough/slough mess
Debt/receipt/island and associated re-Latinisation of spelling
I think ballet gets a pass, being a loanword. Design isn’t so bad either because it’s just de+sign with a bit of a shift in the consonant, although it gets messy when you dee-zine something but you give something a dez-zig-nashun - are we going long or short on the Dee part? Are we going to say the G or are we going silent on it? Can we please aim for a little bit of consistency?