Try these English samples.

1) The bandage was _wound _around the _wound__._

2) The farm was used to _produce produce_.

3) The dump was so full that it had to _refuse___more _refuse_.

4) We must _polish___the _Polish___furniture.

5) He could _lead___if he would get the _lead___out.

6) The soldier decided to _desert___his _dessert_in the _desert__._

7) Since there is no time like the _present_, he thought it was time to _present___the _present_.

8) A _bass _was painted on the head of the _bass___drum.

9) When shot at, the _dove dove _into the bushes.

10) I did not _object___to the _object__._

11) The insurance was _invalid___for the _invalid__._

12) There was a _row _among the oarsmen about how to _row_.

13) They were too _close _to the door to _close___it.

14) The buck _does___funny things when the _does___are present.

15) A seamstress and a _sewer _fell down into a _sewer _line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his _sow___to _sow__._

17) The _wind _was too strong to _wind _the sail.

18) Upon seeing the _tear___in the painting I shed a _tear__._

19) I had to _subject___the _subject___to a series of tests.

20) How can I _intimate___this to my most _intimate___friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no eggin eggplant, nor hamin hamburger; neither applenor pinein pineapple. Englishmuffins weren't invented in Englandor Frenchfries in France. Sweetmeats are candieswhile sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksandcan work slowly, boxing ringsare squareand a guinea pig is neither from Guineanor 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 booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can aslim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?