In “English is a Crazy Language”, Lederer, Richard uses rhetorical question to effectively persuade his audience who speak English or someone interested in English that even though English is most popular and main language, it is an amazing and crazy language in the world. First, he points out the fact that a lot of people speak English and most of the book are written in English. He directly addresses that English are all over the world nowadays. However, English are not easy as people look like. Although English just uses 26 letters to form words, it maybe has more than two million words in English. Additionally, Lederer shows his audience that some of the words do not mean by the word meaning. Such as the “eggplant” does not have “egg”
