• A bandage is wound around a wound.
• A farm is used to produce produce.
• A dump can refuse refuse.
• We polish Polish furniture.
• To help with planting, the farmer teaches his sow to sow.
• After a number of injections my jaw got number.
• 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.
• Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
• Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
• Why is it that writers write and singers sing, but grocers don't groce nor fingers fing?
• If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
• One goose, 2 geese. One moose, 2 meese?
• If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one, is it an odd or an end?
• If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught?
  A vegetarian eats vegetables. What does a humanitarian eat?
  People recite at a play and play at a recital.
  You ship by truck and send cargo by ship.
  We have noses that run and feet that smell.
• A slim chance is a fat chance. A wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
• Your 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.
• When the stars are out, they are visible. When the lights are out, they are invisible.
• Why doesn't Buick rhyme with quick?
• GHOTI is pronounced FISH

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