English is certainly the most used language in the world due to the influence of the British and later the Americans, Canadians, Australians, South Africans and Indians.
However, by no stretch of imagination is it an easy language. It is rife with contradictory spellings, pronunciations, grammar rules and has a terrible tendency to convert proper nouns to verbs.
After nearly 400 years of English on the North American continent we still have a majority of the population that says “Your Welcome”...
And don’t even get me started on “Hugh” and “Series” :)
I love my darling English language and would rather speak it than any other but I know she is a bastardly beast that only I (her true friend) can love
How about "loose" for "lose"?