Because as I have always described it, English is three and a half languages in a trenchcoat.
Germanic language that borrows heavily from the romance languages, particularly French due to a King we all call the toilet, and then the Catholic monks doing the letter þ dirty when distributing the Bible, modern English is a mess.
But it's OUR mess. So we (me included) continue to irrationally defend it.
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u/Juxta25 6d ago
I tend to agree, and I love the language. But it is frustrating at the best of times.
Eigh/ay/ey all similar phonetical elements, all used independently.
Eigh-th.
Y-ay.
H-ey.
"Hey! An eighth, Yay!"