Interesting thought about English Language

There is no egg in eggplant
nor ham in hamburger
neither apple nor pine in pineapple
English muffins weren't invented in England
French fries in France
Sweetmeats are candies
Sweetbreads, which aren't 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
a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor a pig.

And why is it that
writers write
but fingers don't fing
grocers don't groce

and hammers don't ham?

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?

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 call it?

If teachers taught
why didn't 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?
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 in a form
by filling it out
and in which, an 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,
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.

p/s: Are these the reasons why people don't want to learn English?? ;-)