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Originally Posted by Mercenary
... in English there are only one character (and sound) "t".
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Not a good example: “ t” is pronounced differently in tank, mother, matter, notion , theater ( two different sounds), thistle ( one is altogether silent), thus, city, natural, not pronounced at all, and then there are other blasted exceptions:-)
G.B. Shaw quipped that the word “fish” should be written “ghoti”: gh as in “enough”, o as in “women” and sh as in “mention”.
I strongly suspect that multiple languages of India have their peculiar phonetic differences, rules and exceptions.