English is a very difficult language to learn:

The bandage was wound around the wound.

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

They were too close to the door to close it.

After a number of injections, my jaw got number.

Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.

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There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France (I did not know this!). Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

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Quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham. The plural of tooth is teeth, and yet the plural of booth is not beef. One goos makes two geese, but one moose does not make two meese. If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? 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 opposite?

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Yet, English is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world..

Why?

(BTW: Got this from my 'Theory of Knowledge' textbook)