why are silent letters kept in the word’s spelling? Why can’t it be just Jango in place of Django?

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why are silent letters kept in the word’s spelling? Why can’t it be just Jango in place of Django?

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Django is French. In English we pronounce all our j’s “dj” so this seems redundant to us. An example of the J sound in French would be in the name Jacques. You don’t pronounce it “jock” with the dj sound

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