Adhering To Superstition

there is no egg in eggplant, nore ham in a hamburger; neither apple nor pine in a pineapple.English muffins weren't invented in england, nor french fries in france. Sweet meats 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 bakers bake, but grocers don't gross?If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth - beeth? One goose, 2 geese... so one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? If teachers taught, why didnt preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables. what does a humanitarian eat?Sometimes I think all the english speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?We ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and 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 in a form by filling it out and in which and alarm 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 are invisible.