English Is A Crazy Language
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 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. So one moose, two meese? One index, two indices? --> Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not 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 praugh...