Quirks of the English language (part 3)

I would imagine that English must be quite a tricky language to learn for foreign speakers, due to its many quirks and peculiarities. Here are a few more of those quirks...

A bomb about to go boom.

1) If tomb is pronounced 'toom', and womb is pronounced 'woom', then shouldn't bomb be pronounced 'boom'?



2) If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?



3) What is the only word in the English language that you can make shorter by adding two letters?
Short.



4) Why does the word 'monosyllabic' have five syllables!?



5) A dormitory is a place where you sleep (from the French word 'dormir').
A laboratory is a place where you labor.
So why isn't a suppository a place where you suppose?



6) When the stars are out, they're visible. But when the lights are out, they're invisible.

Pineapple: "Wow! I never realised
that restaurateur had no 'n'."
Reader: "Wow! A talking pineapple!"

7) The saying 'It is what it is' could also be said as 'It's what it's'.



8) Abbreviations are supposed to save time by making words shorters, but the abbreviation 'WWW' takes three times longer to say than world wide web!



9) How did the pineapple get its name? It's not an apple, and there's no pine in it!



10) There is no 'n' in the word restaurateur.

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If any readers can think of any other weird quirks found in the English language, then feel free to leave a comment.

You can find more quirks of the English language in my previous blog posts:
Quirks of the English language (part 1)
Quirks of the English language (part 2)