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Why English is so Diffcult to understand and learn

So Language Brings us to gather but also Divides us. While I am Still Coping with the thought provoking,flabbergasting and at times completely dumbfounding words of anecdoes. I and My Mother always have a long discussion over the pronunciation of word with the syllable phony which make them sound alike. This also reminds me of the scene from Chupke Chupke (A Hindi Movie Block Buster from 1975) wherein Dharmendra (one of the lead actors) recites a dialog "Sir To to ho sakta hai Do do ho sakta hai toh Go Go kyun hota hai GOO Kyun nai?" Let's face it - English is a crazy language There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England . We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, gro...