Languages may appear idiosyncratic, but in truth they are not if one knows their history. Language is a convention shared by society as a whole, which makes it very difficult to change it. Thus, when it changes, it changes for a good reason. Knowing the reason thousands of years later can require some historical sleuthing, though.
Which brings us to our mystery of the day: why is the letter C pronunced like K in camel (typically in front of A, O and U) but like S in Cindy, typically in front of E and I? Why would anybody use the same symbol to represent two sounds? Why is the same true for the letter G, such that gates is not pronounced jates but gin is prononced jin? And finally, why would anybody invent a letter, Q, that a) duplicates the sound of C and K and b) is always followed by the same letter, U? The answers to all of these can be found in an alphabet used in Europe before the times of the Romans, as evidenced by some ancient tablets found in Alcoy, Spain. Strangely, this origin has been missed by Spanish and English-language historians of language, all of whom postulate an identical convergent evolution across all romance languages that is utterly hard to believe and fails to answer any of the questions above in a parsimonious manner.
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