English Makes No Sense: “Why” vs. “Who”

[matthewmat]

French is finally experiencing the horrors of silent letters.

[Delicate_Disaster]

I love hoe French always goes into his English lessons excited with lots of questions and ends up leaving defeated and in tears. 😂

[D.R._Iris]

Teaching a Kindergartener to read and explaining that "to", and "do" sound similar but "go" sounds nothing like them... has opened my eyes more to the fact that English is

[ReaIHuman]

I'm convinced whoever invented the English language just wanted to see how many different ways they could spell the same word.

[livrpool]

Back on u FRENCH!!! Don't play victim now 😂

[jayseanation]

Just when you thought French was the most complicated language

[ehall]

We inherited our language from too many sources. Hence the madness. There are no rules in a lawless land.

[YxG]

🤣 oh, the desperate wail and the grabbing of the paper. 😭

[tashnahtv]

I never realized the plight of the English language until now. I'm an English-speaker and thought learning other languages would be confusing. Well... I'm glad I wasn't really "conscious" when I was acquiring English. I got a headache just watching this. My sincerest apologies to you French.

[clementriffault]

French : too much rules
English : no rule at all, pure chaos

[lillithdv]

English, you have no right to complain to French, none whatsoever

[InuKagFangirl]

Wait/Weight, Though/Through, Read/Read *present+past*

[A_Rose_From_Concrete]

The "wait" "weight" "wate" confusion is English's fault he said it was spelled the same as hate🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️😂😂😂

[YazanOKY]

If the English writing system makes sense, there wouldn't be spelling championships

[SteamDumpling]

Pls make one for the 'ea' sound 😅

Bear
Wear
Tear (both noun and verb)
Pear (with pair, maybe)
Rear (should be the same w/ rare, obviously... but not 🙂)
Dear (dare or deer 😅, to confuse the French lmao)

[faolan]

The "h" didnt used to be silent. In words like why, where, when, etc people used to say both the w and the h sound. Some of the older generations still do.

[yoch]

French based on sound, history and genders (for silent letters) english based on bloubbloub All mermory nothing else :D

In Spanish we are fortunate in that the pronunciation of any word can be deduced from its spelling. I can't imagine what a nightmare it must be for English children to learn to read!

[vtk]

French should be excited by this, definitely no right to complain lol

[MEEMOSS]

I love how French is getting a taste of his own medicine.