In celebration of the complexities of the English language, we bring you the following:

Lets face it English is a weird language. (And so are other languages).

There is no egg in the eggplant.

No ham in the hamburger.

And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England, and French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted but if we examine its paradoxes we find: that Quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.

If the plural of tooth is teeth shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?

If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables why don't humanitarians eat human?

Why do people recite at a play yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can the weather be as hot as hades on one day and as cold as hades on another?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language whereby a house can burn up as it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out. A bell is only heard once it goes!

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).

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