Found this on a friends blog. Quite interesting I think. hehe.

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there is no egg in eggplant, nor is there ham in hamburger, or apple or pine in pineapple. english muffins werent invented in england, french fries in france. sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which arent 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 dont fing, grocers dont groce and hammers dont ham? if the plural of tooth is teeth, why isnt the plural of booth beeth? one goose, two geese. so one moose, two meese? one index, two indices.

doesnt 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 didnt preachers praught? if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

in what language do people recite at a play and play at recital? ship by truck and send cargo by ship? have noses that run and feet that smell? how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

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 a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goe 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.

that is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.