I genuinely love how friggin' ridiculous the English language is. It's a hilariously terrible language made up of SO MANY OTHER LANGUAGES and the pronunciation shift over the centuries has been fantastic, too.

This is brought to you by the realization that "yule" & "wool" rhyme.

(or at least are close enough to easily be considered rhymes. From a closer pronunciation examination, the "u" vs "oo" have subtle but definite differences. It's more obvious in some accents than others, but it's still close enough to count!)

any time someone talks to me about why you can't do [xyz] in English, I just LOL. My response is ALWAYS, "Says who?" and then they get a free lecture on the history of language, English in particular, and the shitty grammarians in the late 1800s/early 1900s who said WE NEED RULES

And then MADE A BUNCH OF RULES UP.

Yes, English has *some* standardization, but even that isn't foolproof. (Example: I have had to "correct" my British spelling three times so far in this thread just to make the red squiggles go away.)