- Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
- Quicksand can work slowly
- Boxing rings are square
- A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
- 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 booth, beeth?
- Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
- People recite at a play and play at a recital.
- Ship by truck and send cargo by ship.
- We have noses that run and feet that smell.
- How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
- We park in the driveway and drive on a parkway.
- A house can burn up as it burns down.
- You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm goes off by going on.
- And why doesn’t ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’?
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