blowing my own mind with phonetics

Right now I am like STAGGERED by the word "crazy".

Most specifically, the issue is that if I were really trying to explain the pronunciation of "crazy" to someone, I would write it out like this:

kray-z

but in reality, the z and the y are switched! Probably this has something to do with the word "craze," except wait... is that a real word??

(Hold while I look up "craze"... okay it's real.)

But really, does that like actually make any sense?? I mean Wow! English is nuts! I'm going to start always spelling it krayz from today forward.

True confession: I think I've had too much coffee and not enough personal interaction today.