Written English is descriptive - it’s describes an existing sound.
“Chivalry” is a loan word from French, which is why it’s pronounced with the “S” sound, as French itself is influenced by the S/K sound division from centuries(?) earlier.
Your complaint about consistency is because English is the most syncretic language - it arguably has more loanwords than most other languages have words.
It does? How do you figure?
That would just be a miss-spelling of chivalry.
Written English is descriptive - it’s describes an existing sound.
“Chivalry” is a loan word from French, which is why it’s pronounced with the “S” sound, as French itself is influenced by the S/K sound division from centuries(?) earlier.
Your complaint about consistency is because English is the most syncretic language - it arguably has more loanwords than most other languages have words.
English is like three languages stacked on top of one another while wearing a trenchcoat, pretending to be a single language.
And also randomly welding on other languages for fun