I mean:
English
Russian
French? (how did this happen? France --> French?!?)
Chinese
And someone from Afghanistan is an Afghan? How did the word get shorter not longer? 🤔
Also, why is a person from India called an Indian, but the language is called Hindi? This breaks my brain…
Philippines --> Filipino? They just saw the “Ph” and decided to use an “F”? 🤔
Okay idk how language even works anymore…
[This is an open discusssion thread on languages and their quirks…]
English is a trash fire. It’s a trash fire in pronunciation, in orthography, in grammar, in pretty much ever respect.
But my favourite thing remains ‘ough’: tough, trough, though, thought, through. All pronounced differently.
I remember years ago seeing someone online saying English beats up other languages in an alley and goes through their pockets for spare grammar.
cough, hiccough (pronounced hiccup), plough
Bough, dough, slough, slough (yes, two different pronunciations!), rough …
It’s a mess, isn’t it?
These are not additional pronunciations though.
Bough rhymes with plough, slough rhymes with tough, dough rhymes with though, and slough rhymes with plough or through.