Quote Originally Posted by Unholychinchilla View Post
A five letter word with four silent letters is probably one of my favourite examples of how daft the English language can be.
Oh it's not the silent letters that make it daft. It's the people that speak it. As a language that is spoken worldwide, the only other language I can think of that is filled to the brim with different colloquialisms, slang, unofficial synonyms, and exceptions is Spanish. But it's also the only other language I know how to speak and write.

That being said, I would really hate to have to learn how to speak English. It must be a nightmare trying to utilize what you learn with just a normal person who talks like the afore mentioned.