I mean why is there 2 f in effort? Why is Photo spell with Ph instead of F. Teeth is the plural Tooth so is the Plural of Boot, Beet or is Cheese the Plural of Choose?How come when we say "H" in house, but not in Hour. So plz help me
2006-08-21 13:10:24 · 12 answers · asked by Thai H 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
1. It has been evolving for a couple thousand years, from widely disparate sources.
2. No one took the time to come up with good rules, until it was too late. Now, all attempts to make comprehensible rules are squashed.
3. It doesn't help that there are two types of Engligh. British Isles English, and American English.
4. Americans, in particular, think rules are made to be broken. Ain't that right?
5. English speakers have a long history of spelling bees? Why ruin a favorite passtime (er, for some...)
2006-08-21 13:28:42 · answer #1 · answered by settlet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No more difficult than it is to Nederlands, Francais, or Deutsch speakers. Most Spanish speaking nations do not boost English as a public education requirement, though, so adults are not likely to use it or speak it w/any proficiency; as opposed to NL, Denmark, and Sweden where it's practically compulsory.
2016-03-27 00:32:50 · answer #2 · answered by Hazel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean. If you are trying to learn more spellings, etc., the best thing is to read a lot. The rules can only take you so far since they are not always applicable.
It is difficult because no one controlled it as it was developing. The words are from other languages. It's a hodge podge.
2006-08-21 13:17:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why? Because people like me have to 'troll' their friends because they're so picky with the English language.
I personally like the complexities of it. Although it really bothers me when I can't find a word that works... out of all of the words in it.
2006-08-21 13:20:12 · answer #4 · answered by Nerevarina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just the way it is. Its latin based, but has changed very much over the centuries. Be glad its not like learning japanese. Now theres a tough language.
2006-08-21 13:15:52 · answer #5 · answered by amosunknown 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
english is from a lot of languages, stemming from germanic with latin and greek in it etc. i understand where you're coming from, when i had to learn english coming to the states it was very confusing. all you can do is practice; american english has a lot of those "exceptions".
2006-08-21 13:18:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
English is stemmed from many different languages.
2006-08-21 13:15:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
when you're raised to memorize it, it's not so bad. My explanation is, we weren't ruled an empire in latin. If that doesn't cut it blame Britain for all those grammatical rules.
2006-08-21 13:20:20 · answer #8 · answered by Psychia22 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Beats me. What else is difficult, addition?
2006-08-21 13:16:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try italian first :-)
but I agree with you.. sometime it's weird...
2006-08-21 13:20:26 · answer #10 · answered by guido_961 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋