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English is a crazy language (2)
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England, nor French fries in France


English is a crazy language
One of the vagaries of the English language is that it is not phonetic. That is to say, it is not always possible to tell how a word should be pronounced from its spelling. The main reasons for this are historical. English was not ‘invented’ logically, but has been developed over many hundreds of years, taking in words from other languages as its source material.


Definitions and Word Pairs
There are many disagreements between even well educated people about the meanings and usages of certain words. Some distinctions are claimed to be modern ‘errors’ when, in fact, they may go back centuries, even to the earliest extant writings in English. Some we have come across before:




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