ENGLISH PECULIARITIES • English is the only language where you drive in parkways and park in driveways. • It’s also the only language where you recite in a play and play in a recital. • Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don’t have toetips. Yet, you can tiptoe but not tipfinger. • The word queue is just a Q followed by four silent letters. • Jail and prison are synonyms. However, jailer and prisoner are antonyms. • When you transport something by truck, it’s called a shipment. However, when you transport something by ship it’s called cargo.