Logic and the English language

Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English Language?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables
What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
 
Why do people recite at a play
Yet play at a recital?
 
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways
 
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
Of a language where a house can burn up as
It burns down
 
And in which you fill in a form

By filling it out
 
And a bell is only heard once it goes!
 
English was invented by people, not computers
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn’t a race at all)

And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts
But when I wind up this observation
It ends.