Originally Posted by Der Alte

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.

The bandage was wound around the wound.

The farm was used to produce produce.

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

After a number of injections my jaw got number.

And there is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.