Recently I talked about English and how it must be hard to learn as a second language with so many words that look the same but mean something different.  There are crazy words in English that probably make newcomers to the language scratch their heads, like when we say that when the stars are out they are visible but when the lights are out they are invisible. A slim chance and a fat chance mean the same thing but a wise man and a wise guy do not.  We say that a teacher taught but a preacher didn’t praught yet teachers teach and preachers preach.  There is no ham in hamburger, no egg in eggplant and no apple in pineapple.  French fries don’t come from France and English muffins aren’t from England. Sweetmeats are candies but sweetbreads are meat.   A boxing ring is square.  A guinea pig is not from Guinea, nor is it a pig.  One tooth, two teeth, one booth, two beeth? No, two booths.  One ox, two oxes?  No, two oxen.  One goose, two gooses?  No, two geese.  One moose, two mooses? No, two moose.  One house, two houses.  One mouse, two mouses?  No, two mice.  Or is it meeses, as in Tom & Jerry when Tom would say, “I hate those meeses to pieces”?   By the way, as a side note, Tom & Jerry date back to 1940 featuring the adversarial relationship between house cat Tom and house mouse Jerry.  Tom & Jerry were so popular they were still around in the Tom & Jerry Show as recently as 2021.