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Odd English

Let's face it--English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple...

English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital? Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?

Now I know why I flunked my English. it's not my fault but the silly language doesn't quite know whether it's coming or going.

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(This post was last modified: 11-27-2007 10:00 PM by Coffee Break.)
11-27-2007 01:35 PM
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RE: Odd English

English is a very odd language, the Poms are more odder Icon_cheesygrin

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11-27-2007 10:03 PM
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RE: Odd English

admin Wrote:English is a very odd language, the Poms are more odder Icon_cheesygrin

lol, yes but at least most of us poms `sound` English. I mean, watch an Aussie soap, and listen to a word with an `e` in it, like `let.` Now, how often does it come out as `lit` because the `e` tends to be pronounced as an `i.` Also, what about the raising of the pitch on the last word in a sentence? Icon_mrgreen
11-30-2007 03:05 PM
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RE: Odd English

The Kiwis do that so much worse.

They write with a PIN and sew using PENs to keep everything together.
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