

You think English is easy?Let's face itEnglish is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.You think English is easy?
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And 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 boot


About PeterPeter is a missionary.About Peter
I must tell you from the beginning that he is a different kind of missionary. You might imagine him being like those guys who went to black and wild countries, where they got killed (or eaten) by those who they were trying to convert.Well, Peter does have something in common with those brave men and women, but he never went to China nor to Africa nor any other continent apart from the one he was born in.He went to different countries though. The interesting thing about Peter is that the "church" hates him and it causes him much more trouble than those w
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