My pet theory is that spoken English and written English are two different languages that kinda translate between them.

In spoken English, “I read books.” doesn’t have ambiguous tense.

chaos, debris, plumber. I hate the english language.

Thanks to Hugo’s House of Horrors, a childhood of peh-nuh-lope for Penelope

Names from other languages I think are especially obvious for the self taught or avid reader. Euler, Goethe, Camus, etc

Unless they have a father with a PhD in English who acts like an English teacher with them their whole childhood.

I loved my dad, but boy did it suck when I showed him some piece of creative writing I wrote and he got out the red pen.