Courtesy of Dan Freeman: Why is abbreviation such a long word?

>Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?
>What's another word for synonym?
>Doesn't it worry you that what a doctor does is "practice"?
>We have a notary public, but not a notary private, so why aren't the former just called notaries?
>What's another word that sounds like hononym?
>Why do women have a HISterectomy and men have a HERnia?
>Why is it when you send a package on land it's called a shipment, but when on a ship it's cargo?
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>>Reminds me another one.
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>>If Pro is good, and Con is bad. Consisting Progress as being good, then does Congress mean something bad?