Also, no egg in eggplant, no apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins werenít invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which arenít sweet, are meat. Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea not is it a pig. Writers write but fingers donít finger, grocers donít grose, and hammers donít ham. The plural of tooth is teeth, but itís not beeth for booth. One goose, two geese, one mouse, two meese? One index, two indeces? You can make amends but not one amend. Get rid of all but one of your odds and ends and what do you have? Teachers taught; did preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? We recite at a play and play at a recital. We ship by truck and send cargo by ship. Have noses that run and feet that smell. A slim chance and a fat chance are the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are the opposite. A house can burn up as it burns down, you fill in a form by filling it out, an alarm goes off by going on. The human race isnít a race, and when stars are out theyíre visible but when lights are out theyíre not. We drive on a parkway and park on a driveway.† And why do we have to his ďstartĒ to shut down our computers?