French orthography, while it is better than the English, still leaves a lot to be desired. Most spelling systems in the world (at least for languages that use alphabets and syllabaries) have a much better mapping between phonemes and graphemes.

La c cédille. The diacritic mark under the c has its origin in a small z.

[corrected typo]

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