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And why do you people have to write "ka" like "kah"? It's just "ka". "wa" is "wa", not "way" or "why" or "wuh".
Because the English orthography doesn't work that way.
There are many ways in which
ka can be pronounced in English; however,
kuh (representing the a sound of "Amish" or the u sound of "under" for example),
kay (representing the diphthong ay as in "day"),
kah (representing the a sound of "cat"), etc. are less ambiguous, and that's why they are used.