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Boxing rings are square.

People recite at a play and play at a recital.

Quicksand can work slowly.

A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.

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?

Doesn’t it seem odd that you can make amends but not one amend?

We ship by truck and send cargo by ship.

We 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 opposites?

We park in the driveway and drive on a parkway.

A house can burn up as it burns down.

You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm goes off by going on.

And why doesn’t ‘Buick’ rhyme with ‘quick’?