Who the hell came up with modern english?

There was no "Who", in Hell or anywhere else. Just a single language that evolved over more than 1000 years from many ancestors.

Modern English language is an amalgam of Latin, Greek, Germanic, Scandinavian, Old French, Celtic, Gaelic and assorted other imports (including American, these days); but the first attempts to impose any order came as recently as the 18C. Any decent dictionary will give the etymologies of words, where known, and British English largely respects these.


Your descriptions of how you pronounce words, and hear others doing so, are colloquial and/or dialect.


I before E except when immediately following a soft C is the normal rule in writing. You don't notice it in speech.

"~[single-consonant]e" has a silent "e" but shows the preceding vowel sound. "~[consonant]et" is pronounced with a hard "et".

I can't think of any word with a double "v" ! Plenty of single-'v' and single-'w' words, though; and pronounced as 'v' and 'w'.

The nearest and probably unique is 'vacuum', properly pron. "vac-you-um" though most speakers say "vac-yoom".

Pronouncing "educate" as "ejucate" is purely by individual's style of speech, but might be slightly easier to say than the hard "d" which is the proper form.

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Oh, and for anyone visiting Wales, Scotland or Ireland (Ulster or Eire), please do try to learn the basic pronounciations of place-name elements! I know the Welsh ones, to some extent, but am hazy with the Gaelic.

That would be the French 😂

"English does not borrow from other languages. It hunts them down and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar."