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by blackshaw 908 days ago
> we are the champions of how to write something easy most difficultly, and crank weirdness of pronunciation to 100

Wurs than Inglish? I hav my dowts.

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Where do you think the weirdest bits of the English language came from?
If we're talking about spelling, the biggest source of English's orthographic oddness is the Great Vowel Shift:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift