What's In A Word?

I was listening to the grand shuffle of my preferred digital media container, and this song ("Loving, Self Loathing" by Smoke or Fire) came on. Play it while you read, perhaps.

You ever listen to that Violent Femmes song "Blister in the Sun" (here) and think to yourself, "kite is a funny word"? Because it is. Kite and white.

Kite.

White.

Right?

Tight?

Sight?

Site. Oh ok.

Cite. Hmm.

Fight.

Dyke. OHSHI-

In case you are unaware, Sassy is a mom. Let's all handle this like adults. Now, ahem. One of the benefits of being a mom is the little DNA stain that follows you around and makes a shit-ton of fabulous noise about the approximation of the vastness of nothing!. I likewise see a trend though, and I have made a chart to show you this phenomenon.

By age

I do a serviceable job for a writer, I'd say. Oh yeah, so the point I was eventually getting to with this chart is that Sassy provided her additional mobile DNA to the cause - not a soul alive knows what that is - which is how I get to experience watching said child learn to read without being an actual parent/responsible adult/positive male role model.

Do you know how nonsensical the English language is when it comes to reading/writing? Half the rules are exceptions, and most the exceptions are French, Latin, or German in any event. Our language isn't intuitive at all.

This is what a word can trigger in my brain.