As a someone who is not an english native speaker, it's really wild that english spelling is so badly irregular you can make a competition out of it. amirite?

Try learning to read Chinese and Japanese at the same time.

Fun fact: English descriptions of speech impediments make the impediment clear by someone who has said impediment because English is a cruel mistress

Lisp, soft palette, stutter etc

There, their, if your not certain open that they're curtain.

And wilder still is that we have kids compete in this competition when more than half of the adults in the country can spell worth a CRAP

Try French.

It's not really irregular.... you just have to know or figure out at which point in history they stole a word from another language (Danelaw period, Norman period, etc...).

I was just telling my mom I heard a non native speaker accidentally say the N word when trying to pronounce a country in Africa.

Grüezi, may I introduce you german:
„Des Weiteren ist das Übrige auszuschließen und im Übrigen sind die Ausschlüsse zu erweitern und die Erweiterungen sind ausschließlich zu erübrigen. Erübrigungen werden des Weiteren ausgeschlossen. Ausgeschlossene Erweiterungen sind übrig. Übrige Ausschlüsse werden erweitert. Erweiterte Erübrigungen werden ausgeschlossen. Auszuschließende Erübrigungen werden erweitert.".