Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-And Other Oddities of the English Language

For anyone who has ever wondered why English is so weird, an entertaining and expert tour of the most puzzling parts of our language.

Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you're an expert with a red pen who never omits a comma or misplaces a modifier, you must have noticed that there are some things about this language that are just weird.

Perhaps you're reading a book an...