Why did languages develop irregularities?

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It seems to me that for each existing in a language there is at least one exception. Not to mention words or verbs that simply do not follow rules. Why is that?

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Language isn’t planned. It evolves constantly, and both meanings and how words sound shift all the time. It’s pretty much impossible to prevent something odd from happening.

Add on top that often words are transferred between languages and it’s kinda random if the old or the new languages rules are applied to it. And it can change after a century too, when people forgot the word was stolen from another language.

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