Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
So thankful I could parse that without thinking on it. Can you imagine learning that shit from scratch?!
Our Strange Lingo
When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it’s true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, dose,and lose
And think of goose and yet with choose
Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll or home and some.
Since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said I pray?
Think of blood, food and good.
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone -
Is there any reason known?
To sum up all, it seems to me
Sound and letters don’t agree.- Lord Cromer
See also “The Chaos”: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
This what fascinates me learning about languages. They have their own characters and quirks. Languages are the embodiment of the people’s culture and history. That said, the English language shows how messed up its history is.
That said, the English language shows how messed up its history is.
The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.
The irony is that Britain is, to the best of my knowledge, the only country other than Sweden whose mainland hasn’t been occupied by a foreign invader in over 950 years.
i mean other than the british
English is a terrible language and I really need to get gooder at it.
*better
*gooderer
Anyone else pronounce it as reed and leed first?
Yes.
I read it as red and led first. I wonder where this will lead us?
Sean Bean has a lot to answer for!
Which witch switch glitched?
I was like “reed” and “led”, went back to “red” and “led”, continued to “red” and “lead” and was like OMG I’m such a basic white bitch LOL and took a sip of my pumpkin spice luh-theh.
