Let´s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

English muffins weren´t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren´t sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write bungers don´t fing, grocers don´t groce and hammers don´t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn´t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?

One index, 2 indices? Doesn´t it see crazy that you can make amends but no one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn´t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Sometimes I......

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