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.
It is only in the English language that people recite at a play and play at a recital.
I was proven right that I had the right of way.
How come you never hear of a combobulated, gruntled, ruly,or peccable person?
Why is it that whether you sit down or sit up, the results are the same?
A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
If brother becomes Brethren, why doesn't mother become Methren?
A lone mouse can transform into a whole set of mice, But it's impossible for a single house to become a whole block of hice. (It becomes houses)
A hat in the plural doesn't become hose. And a cat in the plural doesn't become cose.
I had to subject the subject to a series of tests
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
