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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/02/w5drunmaxwclm3qn8xyu.jpg?quality=75636160English isn’t the hardest language in the world to learn, but it’s definitely a crazy one with wacky rules. Things that apply for some words never seem to be considered for similar ones. Change one letter here and it can sound completely different there but sound the same somewhere else. It’s all pretty ridiculous.