What SQL shares with English (and most other natural languages) is that the rules are sometimes confusing/inconsistent/illogical, but evolution is very slow so most of us are probably stuck with the status quo during our lifetimes (career time for SQL) due to the overwhelming network effects.
The problem with English is that it isn't really a single language but a mashup of Latin/French/German/Scandinavian due to the number of invasions and each invader not really covering the whole country.
A simple way to demonstrate this is how we ended up with cities that have massively different pronunciation even though the spelling is similar.
