It's the lunacy of the English language. A
retired teacher of English once wrote: 'English
is a crazy
language.

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# There is no egg in eggplants, 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.
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# We take English for granted. But if we explore
it's 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 but fingers 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, two geese.
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# So one moose, two meese? Doesn't it seem
crazy that you can make amends but not one
amend? . If teachers
taught, why don't preachers praught?
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# If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a
humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the
English speakers should be committed to an
asylum for the verbally insane.
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# You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language in which your house can burn up as
it burns down, in which you fill in a form by
filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off
by going on. English was
invented by people, not computers, and it
reflects the creativity of the human race,
which, of course, is not a race at all........www.facebook.com/myschoolbaze