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Wait until you try to figure out how to pronounce "ough", like in rough or through or dough.
Looks like it's time to recommend one of my favorite books:
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language
I found it via an interview with the author on the 99% Invisible podcast:
Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
It's a great book because it lays out, very logically, all the ways our language went to shit. It was a product of the Great Vowel Shift and crappy timing regarding it, plus competing cultures ruling the lands in England.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
banger poem