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The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
I did not object to the object.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
I shed my clothes in the shed.
And since there is no time like the present,
he thought it was time to present the present.

Is English so hard to learn? Let’s face it, English is a stupid language…
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in a hamburger;
And neither pine nor apple in a pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England,
Nor were french fries invented in France.
Sweetmeats are candies;
While sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore 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.
Why is it that bakers bake, but grocers don’t groce?
If writers write, how come fingers don’t fing.
And if the teacher taught, why didn’t the preacher praught.
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat!?
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 box, 2 boxes… one index, 2 indices?

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 park on driveways and drive on parkways?
We 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
a house can burn up as it burns down,
And 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 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.
And why it is that when I wind up my watch, it starts;
But when I wind up this observation, it ends.

And finally, how about when you want to shut down your computer?
You have to hit ‘START’!