A14. A LOOK AT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
1) There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger. Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
2) English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France
3) Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
4) 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.
5) And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing; grocers don't groce; and hammers don't ham?
6) 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?
7) Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
8) If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of
them, what do you call it?
9) If teachers taught why didn't preachers praught?
10) If a vegetarian eats vegetables, are humanitarians cannibals?
11) In what language do people recite a play and play at a recital?
12) Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
13) Have noses that run and feet that smell?
14) How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
P.S. Why doesn't Buick rhyme with quick?