Voice your opinion!
Voice your opinion!
English is a crazy language. For example, there is no egg in eggplant, ham in hamburger, nor apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies and sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig isn’t a pig nor from Guinea.
Here are other examples that someone (maybe an English teacher) put together.