And to keep it complicated every once in a while we make it so you need to respe...

balloot on Sept 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: English has been my pain for 15 years

And to keep it complicated every once in a while we make it so you need to respect the origin words. One that always makes me think twice as a native English speaker is "infrared". I always have to stop myself from saying it such that it rhymes with "compared".