Legal terms
Legal English preserves Latin and Norman French phrases largely unchanged, so ordinary English spelling rules do not apply. Subpoena is suh-pee-nuh with a silent b, and voir dire keeps a French vowel. These are learned by ear rather than derived from the page.
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