>You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
>Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

http://www.ndragan.com/lange/twouse.html

>If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?

http://www.ndragan.com/lange/prought.html

>There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;

...as the rules are always superseded by the list of exceptions, called also dictionary.

>We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square

But the ice cubes can be round; you can call them rocks if you pour whiskey over them while you listen to the news from all four corners of the globe.

>And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

Can I be patent and pend on that question?

I once wanted to be a crater - to make crates. Or better - to make bets.

>If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Humanitables? But, really, if something is digestible, it can be digested; if a something is doable, it can be done - but what under the sky can be vegeted?

>Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

I've heard some uncorroborated rumors that there are several such places, called countries - but I wouldn't pay much attention to that, because their payment methods are insane.


>We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.

Ah, and thanks for this list - I thought I lost it. And it looks richer than last time.