I stumbled across this joke taken from the Malay Mail. I guess it's true after all,huh?

Learning English is difficult.

There is no egg in the eggplant,
No ham in the hamburger,
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England,
and French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted
But if we examine its paradoxes we find that:
Quicksand takes you down slowly
Boxing rings are square,
The quinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig

And what about the noun roots of verbs?

If writer writes, how come fingers don’t fing?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn’t the plural of phone booth is phone beeth?
If the teacher taught, why didn’t the preacher praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Why do the people recite at a play, yet play at a recital?
Or park on driveways and drive on parkways?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language

Where a house can burn up … as it burns down
In which you fill in a form… by filling it out
Where an alarm is only heard once it goes off!

English was created by people, and it reflects the creativity
of the human race (which of course isn’t a race at all)
That is why when the stars are out they are visible
But when the lights are out… they are invisible
But I still can’t figure out why it is that when I wind up my watch, it starts…
But when I wind up this discussion… it ends.

p/s: oh my god, now I really have to prepare myself before the days Amy will start asking me about all these stuff LOL

Nina