Why English spelling is so messed up

I didn't have much problems with it. I don't know. I memorise the spellings easily. Sometimes I set my own pronunciations on the words so that I remember the spellings. A more relevant pronunciation. As if it's a Latin word maybe.

PS Misspelled pronunciations at first. Wrote pronounciations, because I confused its spelling with pronounce. relative words but surprisingly different spelling.

 

Why is American spelling so messed up?

 

unrelated, one of my posts was removed pending a review of sorts title was "My hatred or dislike of women" i asked to basically be proven wrong and welcomed opinions opposing mine, i don't see what I've done wrong here.

 

It is always a good point of banter. I live on the South Coast and here we pronounce drawing as draw-ring. So, in the Midlands and the North they laugh at us for that. It makes the world go round I guess.

I hope you are keeping well btw.

 

it's not soccer it's football lol

 

Right!

 

Yes, I have no idea where it comes from either. It just shows how much we are influenced by local pronunciation haha.

That's good, I am doing well thanks.

 

For me, guessing the correct pronunciation of a word according to its spelling is a far bigger problem. E.g. "ea" is pronounced something close to /i/ (meat, read, etc.) in many words and sometimes I unconsciously choose to pronounce the "ea" like /i/ and later I realise it's wrong. Once I pronounced "heavy" like that and the Hongkongese girl almost laughed at me, after correcting me.

I've seen a person pronounce the "ea" in the word "header" like /i/ on television more than one time.
"ea" can have several different sounds: meat, bread, break, theatre, etc. Even two words with same spelling are pronounced differently: read and read.

Sometimes I pronounce "i" like /ai/ wrongly. I used to think hidden is pronounced like hide.
Also, I used to think the word "etc." is pronounced like "ETC" and not "et cetera".
I could bring more examples.

 

Well, not really, it's not a nightmare. Yes, it is hard to learn a new language, especially for someone from a country who doesn't use the Latin alphabet. For example, I consider English much easier to learn than my native language (Romanian) where the pronunciation is very hard even for a native speaker. For example, if you are not a native speaker it's almost impossible to understand the Moldavian accent. It's like 2 different languages if you hear them. But I consider French harder than every romance language and Romanian after that. I can decently read in French, but I don't understand very much. The easiest language, for us romanians, to learn is Italian. It's pretty similar but easier in pronunciation.