It has to do with the word coming from French to English. There isn’t a b sound in the French word. Sometimes, the weird spellings harken back to French loan words.

My guess is that English speakers spoke it with an accent and it eventually morphed into the modern English pronunciation

How do you keep your paper from curling? Mine always curls when I try watercolor

I type really fast into a telnet session like the good lord intended!

Pong irc.2600.net

Maybe let them trade stocks, but they have to publicly report all trades before or right when they’re made

Until we can make everything through the tireless efforts of a single Australian man

Jerboa!

I pronounce it the correct way: dah-tah