Strange English

1) Did you know that 'verb' is a noun?

2) If two mouses are mice and two louses are lice, why aren't two houses hice?

3) Is there another word for a synonym?

4) Shouldn't there be a shorter word for 'monosyllabic'?

5) Why does 'cleave' mean both split apart and stick together?

6) Why doesn't 'onomatopoeia' sound like what it is?

7) Why isn't 'palindrome' spelled the same way backward?

8) Why do overlook and oversee mean different things?

9) What is another word for 'thesaurus'?