Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?
Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?