French is actually quite regular with fewer exceptions to the rules of pronounciation.

People like to use french words like “Oiseau” (bird) as an example of why french pronounciation is bad but they just do not know the rules of it!

Take “Oiseau” for example “Oi” is usually pronounced [wa] like in “Oie” with a silent e, “Oise” or other words containing it. -seau is a typical suffix. So a french reader can easily know how to pronounce “oiseau” just from reading it. You just can’t because you don’t know the rules of French pronounciation!

English is so much worse with pronounciations that ignores spelling: Take the word “colonel” for example. What’s worse is that in English there seemingly are no rules whatsoever with vocals being long or short depending on historical reasons and consonants appearing or disapering depending on whether Mercury is in retrograde.

Autism didn’t exist 50 years ago! Autism 50 years ago:

Now what the heck is a black hole gonna do with those?