Probably. The British have a long history of misspelling things. Worcester is pronounced Wooster, Gloucester is Glawster, but Winchester is pronounced like you'd expect (instead of, say, "Winshter" to be consistent). There's minor things like "colour", and then problems like "thought" and "tough" are pronounced with different vowels even though they are both "ou". Of course "caught" and "thought" are pronounced the same, even though spelled differently. Then you get to some truly egregious ones like "this is land" is pronounced totally different from "this island". When the French--no strangers to non-obvious pronunciation--complain [1], you know there's a problem! Us Americans tried to fix the basic stuff like "color" and "jail", and sometimes we regularized the placenames, like Wooster, Ohio, but you can only do so much. But they must have been salty about the revolution or something, because they don't seem to have merged our fixes back in.

[1] https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html