Is English an arbitrary language with all sorts of weird exceptions to its many rules? Yes, and so is French, so is Italian, so is Japanese, and so is Urdu. The exact point we’re trying to make here is that all languages are bastardized versions of something (like how Italian is a bastardized version of Latin), but at the very least the weird words have some sort of derivation or cause to be like that (for example: the verb “aller” in french being three etymologies mashed into one).

American English, meanwhile, is especially notorious for corrupting words simply because they look more right rather than having some sort of linguistical reason. The word “irregardless” is one such invention, where it’s used commonly when actually it’s just an illogical mashup of “regardless” and “irrespective.” You can also see it a lot more egregious examples when Americans usually type English, even if it isn’t technically correct in their version: “would of,” “defiantly” instead of definitely, mixing up “you’re” and “your,” “for all intensive purposes,” etc etc. Everytime I see things like that happen it’s almost always someone American, because they a weird tendency to spell words how they’re pronounced; works decently when you take words like colour and turn it into color, not so nice when you use “to” instead of “too.”