Why do u drive on a parkway and park in the driveway. Its messed up.
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Why do we 'drive' on a 'parkway' but 'park' at a 'strip club'?
Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.