Our language? We gave you a perfectly good language
Are you serious?? Whilst a great admirer of some of your island's achievements, your language is not one of them. Non-phonetic, with an irregular grammar, inconsistent pronunciation, and generally devoid of idiomatic colour, I would be hard-pressed to call your language a "perfectly good" one. Next to Mandarin, one of the more difficult tongues for non-native speakers to acquire. Spread around the world through invading, looting and pillaging, I may add! The sound of it offends foreign ears, akin to having them slowly removed with a cheese grater, unlike the melodious beauty of the languages across the channel....
Back to the semantics issue: poteito, potato.....
