People being amused by irregular verbs is, in my opinion, a sign of how much regularity there is in English. For an example of irregularity in Russian there is

People being amused by irregular verbs is, in my opinion, a sign of how much regularity there is in English. For an example of irregularity in Russian there is a short story by M. Zoschenko, "The fire iron" (Кочерга, М.Зощенко [1]). The plot of the story is about some office workers who are trying to write an order for five fire irons but don't know how to write "five fire irons" so they toss around ideas to order three and two in different orders or request "a fire iron, five items of" etc. It makes no sense in English, obviously, but in Russian the issue is that a noun, when used with quantity, has to be in different cases depending on the quantity and for quantity of 5 the case is genitive plural[2], which is rarely used naturally with "fire iron" so most people don't know how to make one. 1. http://fanread.ru/book/7894628/?page=1 http://fanread.ru/book/7894628/?page=1 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_declension#Numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_declension#Numerals