There are other combos which cause similar confusions, just to widen this discussion of anomalies of English spelling & pronunciation a bit. I have known several educated people who had never realised that 'misled' is the past tense of 'mislead' ['to lead astray'], and pronounced it something like 'my zuld'].

And some word processors with obscenity checks refuse to print the name of the town Scunthorpe. (I am told that in the US graduates of the Notre Dame University have trouble with their CV's, as 'Dame' is held to be non-PC. Is that true or a folktale?)