Let me show u guys something first,
1. The bandage was wounded around the wound.2. we must polish the polish furniture.3. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.4. They were too close to the the door to close the door5. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.6. Upon seeing the tear in the painting, i shed a tear.
Let's face it, English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, money dont grow from money plant, 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 it's paradoxes, we'll find that quicksand work slowly, boxing ring are aquare and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor it is 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 isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, teo 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 all it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetable, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes all english speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite a play and play at a 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 oppisites? 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 and not computers as it reflects the creativity of 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
