Have you ever been confused by the British English and American English? Things like if a word should be “spelled” or “spelt”? Or “organize” or “organise”? If you are typing and have set the language (along with autocorrect) then I supposed there’s no problem at all for you, but for those of us who had been through school and having to write these (and even more so when it’s not your first language!), I’m sure you are fairly acquainted with having your teachers feedback to you about “mis-spelling” some of these words.
Here are 5 other instances of why English is the worse language ever (and a major pain in the behind!)
1) English can be very contradicting!
2) When pronunciation is a problem
3) Some words sound the same as others, but just not the ones that are spelled the same way.
4) When there are things like “had had” and “that that”
And if those are not enough, have a look at this too:
5) “We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese,
You may find a lone mouse or a whole nest of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But a bow if repeated is never called bine,
And the plural of vow is vows, never vine.
If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?
If the singular’s this and the plural is these,
Should the plural of kiss ever be nicknamed keese?
Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren,
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim,
So the English, I think, you all will agree,
Is the queerest language you ever did see.”
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