Dr Deviant

The English language has a few really shit features I’m surprised it ever caught on. well, I suppose since the english ruled half the planet at one time a lot of people didn’t really have a choice. The 2 I want to berate today are the concept of context only words, and the use of “ough”.
Context only words

These are words that you cannot say properly without guesswork or knowing the context, since the same written word has 2 completly different meanings, let alone pronounciations, for example:

Polish

• The noun meaning denoting being from poland
• The verb meaning to buff up to a shine

Read

• The act of interpreting something that is written or printed
• The past tense of the above

The use of “Ough”

This is a really annoying part of the English Language why does this have so many ways of being pronounced. 

• Thought
• Though
• Thorough
• Through
• Enough
• Cough
• Hiccough (Pronounced Hiccup – but originally correctly spelt hiccough until idiots got hold of the english language… o.k. more idiots, after those that spelt it like that in the first place)

I read a really cool essay on simplification of the english language once, and I can’t seem to find it any more… I’ll see if I can dig out out. But the other issue we have as a by-product of this madness is demonstrated in the following sentence – Count number of letter ‘F’s.

Finished Files are the result of years of Scientific study combined with the experience of years.

I bet you didn’t get all 6 of them, and I bet you missed most of the ‘of’s since we say it “ov” and when reading we are trying to interpret what we are saying not analysing the text.