One night I was reading a "Fancy Nancy" book to Stella and it was talking about some paintings of Claude Monet, which I pronounced Moe-nay. Stella said Nano, that is pronounced Mo-net. I said, no, it's really pronounced Moe-nay. She knows the rules of English pronunciation and I couldn't convince her other. Likewise, I'm sure she was thinking, Silly Nano, do you see an "a" in Mo-net?
Monet is French, but really, this is just the beginning of the odd way we pronounce many of our words. And usually because the words are a compilation of other languages and spellings that we have adopted.
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