It has to do with the word coming from French to English. There isn’t a b sound in the French word. Sometimes, the weird spellings harken back to French loan words.
My guess is that English speakers spoke it with an accent and it eventually morphed into the modern English pronunciation
It has to do with the word coming from French to English. There isn’t a b sound in the French word. Sometimes, the weird spellings harken back to French loan words.
My guess is that English speakers spoke it with an accent and it eventually morphed into the modern English pronunciation