There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburg er; neither apple nor pine in pineapple, English muffins were not invented in England, nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies... while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet at all, are meats. We take Eng lish for granted. But if we explore its par adoxes, we find that quicksand can work slow, boxing rings are square
and a guineapig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't ring, grocers don't groce, a nd hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the pl ural of booth beeth? One goose, two gees e. So. one moose, two meese? One index, 2 indices? Is chee se the plural of choose? If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people reci te at a play and play at a recital? ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Do people have noses that run and feet that smell? And do they park on driveways and drive o n parkways?
