The worst thing about English...

How is the plural of "roof" "roofs" and the plural of "belief" "beliefs" when the plural of "leaf" is "leaves" and the plural of "thief" is "thieves"?

And silent letters. What is with silent letters? I mean, you either have the letter, or you don't. You can't have it but not say it. That doesn't make sense!

Does the disparity between "modern" and King James English count? I love the sounds of the latter, but so few people understand it today.

Knowing when to put 'begun' and 'began'. I JUST DON'T KNOW MAN.

I forgot.

Who and whom.

You're, your.

American vs. British English. ;D I've been exposed to both ever since I was a child, so I have no idea which word is British or American. So I just do a bunk and use whatever. (I do tend to abuse British spellings, though.)

American spellcheck programs hate my refusal to use the letter 'z' in words like realise, penalise, criticise, emphasise etc.

This is despite the fact that I acknowledge that the English English language shamefully neglects the letter 'z'.

I can connect with those spell-check programs. I don't like the use of s in those types of words either. I realize this when I read the word aloud with an s in it instead of a z. Meh, just my personal preference I guess. I think words like realize should end with the "lies" sound rather than the "lice" type sound.

The worst thing?

Nothing rhymes with "orange".

Even worse than the worst thing:
Nothing rhyming with any of these words.

And silent letters. What is with silent letters? I mean, you either have the letter, or you don't. You can't have it but not say it. That doesn't make sense!

xDD I don't know about English but in French it's to do with the history of the words and its Latin origins...

...Sois heureux! Il y a beaucoup de lettres muettes en Français. (That sentence totally didn't take forever to write. I'm obviously confident at French grammar. (heeelp))

Pretty much the same with English, Blues. Although, I remember being told that there are examples (like knife) where the silent letter was once pronounced until we got too lazy.