(Note: this is a silly post, please do not take it seriously!)
Okay so, we’ve been recently noticing a number of words in the English language that just instill that “wait that’s odd” feeling when you stop to think about it.
For instance, the word “understand”, why is standing under the same as comprehension? Is that the best metaphor we could come up with?
“Increase”. What’s in the crease?
“Painting”, I know the suffering artist is a trope but should we really label all works of visual art as pain things? 
“Thousand” clearly from the words thou and sand, are they counting the grains or something? Or maybe it’s thous and and?
“Pumpkin”. This is the one that convinced me I had to start this thread. Why is this fruit’s entire identity defined by its familial ties with pumps? How do pumps even reproduce? Hello?
“Salmon”. “On” what? Salm on what? What about Salmoff? It doesn’t add up.
A bunch of words starting with A: Some of them make sense like “Account” (a count), “Across” (a cross), “Another” (an other), but then we have… “Amount” a mount 
… what? “Again”, a gain? What’s the gain? “Appear”, a 
? “Abroad”??? What are they implying here!?
Don’t get me started on how we “should” do things, but then if we “shoulder” that’s a body part. Completely unhinged… wait… un hinged… no actually this one makes sense 
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Then there’s “pineapple” which is just rude, come on! 
Do you know of any other examples?
