Ep. 198: Why Is The English Language So Weird?

31/01/2022 1h 0min

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The English Language is one of the most difficult languages to learn, mostly because it has strange, and extraordinarily inconsistent spelling conventions.  Why?  That is the question author and language expert Arika Okrent answers in her book Highly Irregular.  In short, English is a Germanic language spoken by barbarians, altered by the French, influenced by […]