Yes and every science major will still wonder why the FUCK we haven't switched to the metric system...
However, part of the beauty of the English language is in the complexity. We have 5 words with similar (yet slightly different) meanings while most other languages only have 1 word.
If you are a native English speaker and have a decent foundation in education you will rarely need a dictionary when dealing with the basics such as elicit/ilicit, they're/there/their, principle/principal, its/it's, site/sights, etc... I just feel bad for the foreign speaker that starts learning english after their childhood.
I'm no expert on language, but aren't other languages (Arabic, Mandarin, Japonese) more difficult to learn than English?
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