The English language is a really strange thing. This post is only a small collection of what I've come across.

All languages have evolved from a few different stems and they each have their own specials quirks and oddities. But the English language is what intrigues me most. This is probably because my native tongue, Danish, is a natural part of me that I don't care about the quirks and because I don't know other languages well enough to understand the things that are weird.

Now, my boyfriend is an English major and have always said that the English language has been put together by a group of blind men with a German dictionary. I always laugh at this and it, but the language is really strange.

A few weeks ago I made a post on Facebook about the word 'describe' having a b, while the word 'description' has a p. One of my boyfriends friends from University posted a comment to my post, where she taught me the word Ghoti. This word is pronounced 'Fish'. What's up with that? It makes sense, of course, if you use the logic behind the prenunciation, as explained in the Wikipedia article she linked to.

Then today I found a video of 80s comedian Gallagher. First of all he is awesome. In this video at 3:14 he starts attacking the oddities in how you spell words in English.

You also have to remember that there is a difference between British English and American English, or as the Queen of Twitter said:

For the avoidance of doubt, there is no such thing as 'American English'. There is the English language and there are mistakes.

I remember when the first Harry Potter movie, where Professor McGonagall says:

The sorting ceremony will begin momentarily.

The word "momentarily" means "very soon" in American English, but "for a short amount of time" in British English, which is why it was strange for her - a British - to say it.

It's amazing that English has become the most used language world wide, considering the fact that other languages have more rules than exceptions.