Why the English language is so hard to learn

[Allen]

Some of these I hadn't thought of.

[JB White]

Once you can read it then you’ve read it.
Just don’t confuse read with reed or read with red.
They raised the barn. They razed the barn.

[Mark in Ottawa]

The well-known linguistic joke is what is this word? "Ghoti"

The answer is "Fish"

Derivation is a follows: F sound from the word "enough"; i sound from the word "women"; and sh sound from the word "station"

It is apparently attributed to the British play-write, George Bernard Shaw