"Bob Fry" wrote in message

Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

Nauseous originally applied to that which causes nausea. It's been so
misused that lexicographers punted and included a second definition which is
equal to nauseated.

Our language is difficult because it's a living language, and people
interpret to mean that however the common folk use it, that's how it should
be. My generation destroyed the word "awesome." Werd, dawgs.

Why do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck
and send cargo by ship?

....park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? And why in hell is it
called a "hot water heater"?