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Why is the word "vineyard" pronounced "vin-yard"?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
It's middle-English translated from olde-English from an original interpretation from an old French word.

So over the centuries has probably had several versions of spelling.
When you consider only royalty and clergy were ever educated on things like language and mathematics at that time