It can't get funnier than this!

English, though has its own rules of grammar, can be sometimes very funny and a language that is very hard to learn. Here are a few examples why it is so -

• There is neither an egg in eggplant nor pine/apple in a pineapple
• If teachers taught then why didn't preachers praught?
• Sometimes there are too many paradoxes in this language - quicksand is slow, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from guinea nor is it a pig!
• If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
• In this crazy language, your nose "runs" and your feet "smell" :-)
• Why is it that when we transport something by car it is called shipment and when we do it by a ship it is called a cargo?
• Why do we call the third hand on the clock the second hand?
• If olive oil is made from olives then where does baby oil come from?
• Why does a night fall and never break but a day break and never fall?
• If harmless is the opposite of harmful then why are shameless and shameful the same?
• We say the sun "comes" up and "goes" down whereas the prices "go" up and "come" down!
• When the sun or the moon or the stars are "out" they are visible but when the lights are "out" nothing is visible!
• When I wind up my watch, I start it but when I wind up this post, I end it! :-)