cool and utterly useless trivia: another contradicting aspect of life

There are certain words in the English vocabulary which posses an inherent irony - a sort of contradiction between the meaning the word bears and the nature of the word itself. Take how nothing as a word is something on its own, and everything is really just one thing; or how short is longer than long; freedom can be easily contained in one word; and colours, here, are only black and white. Even the Alphabet, which traditionally consists of twenty-six letters, can be considered to have only eight or two letters, whichever way you prefer to go by...

There's just so much to marvel about.