Let's face it- English is a crazy language. There's is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger. There is neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in england. French fies and french toast? Nope, not from France.
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 writters write but finfers 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. One moose: two meese?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If vegeterians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?
Isn't it weird how people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a few and quite alot are alike
And where are all thos people who ARE spring chickens, or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
Isn't it crazy that a house can burn up as it burns down? And you fill in a form by filling it out? And an alarm clock goes off by going on?
English was invented by people not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course isn't a race at all.) That is why, when the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out, they're invisible. And why when I wind up my watch I start it, but when I wind up this essay I end it!
