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Someone like goofy might be able to come up with a better answer, but I would guess that when the spelling was locked in the pronunciation of the vowels in the two words was different. The spelling became regularized and then the vowel sounds came together. The sounds of the two words might have been something like /speək/ and /spe:tʃ/.
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