Weird Words

The story on oil got me thinking, who made up words, how to spell, them and what they mean. Like who invented the word knight? It confuses poor innocent children who have that word for a spelling test, for several reasons.

One, because of all the silent letters. I mean, where did the k, g, and h come from? Reason number 2 is that it is a homophone. Which means that two words are said the same, and spelled differently. Which is also very confusing. I think it's also annoying because if you're creative enough to come up with the word knight and how it's spelled, then you should be creative enough to come up with another word instead of using the same word for two different things, like knight and night.

But what I think is the most annoying of all is the inconsistent rules that they tell you. For example the rule i before e except after c is totally destroyed with the word "their," which I must say is a rather common word.