Paradox

boxing rings are square.
A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
Why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?
One goose, two geese. So, one moose, two meese??
There’s neither egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger.
There is neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England nor French Fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
Why is it that you can make amends, but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and you get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats only vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Where else but English....
do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run, and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell on another?
Have you ever...
met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
Have you ever run into someone who was combulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable?
And where are those people who ARE spring chickens or who ACTUALLY hurt a fly?