But at least english pays proper tribute to the languages it took from (at with greek that I'm personally familiar) by adopting specific spellings. Words spell

But at least english pays proper tribute to the languages it took from (at with greek that I'm personally familiar) by adopting specific spellings. Words spelled with "ph" for the f sound are spelled like that because they are derived by greek words. In latin languages elephant is spelled like elefant, making tracing the history of the word much harder