vexing question
25 July 2008, 03:15 PM
#4
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
iTrader: (5)
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Bedfordshire
Posts: 8,948
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Something I pinched from Civil Service mag
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented 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 the paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square; and a guinea pig is neither from guinea, not 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 mouse, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you make amends, but not one amend?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables what do humans eat?
Ship buy truck and send cargo by ship, have noses that run and feet that smell? how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same; while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which you house can burn up, as it burns down; in which you fill in a form by filling it out; in which and alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which of course, is not a race at all.
P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "Quick"
-------------
You think English is Easy???
1) The bandage was wound around the wound
2) The farm was used to produce produce
3) The Dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse
4) We must polish the Polish furniture
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out
6) The Soldier decided to desert the desert in the desert
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the headof the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove in the the bushes
10) I did not object to the object
11)They were too close to the door to close it
12) The buck does funny things, when the does are present
13) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow
14) Upon seeing a tear in the painting, I shed a tear
15) I had subject the subject to a series of tests
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented 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 the paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square; and a guinea pig is neither from guinea, not 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 mouse, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you make amends, but not one amend?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables what do humans eat?
Ship buy truck and send cargo by ship, have noses that run and feet that smell? how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same; while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which you house can burn up, as it burns down; in which you fill in a form by filling it out; in which and alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which of course, is not a race at all.
P.S. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "Quick"
-------------
You think English is Easy???
1) The bandage was wound around the wound
2) The farm was used to produce produce
3) The Dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse
4) We must polish the Polish furniture
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out
6) The Soldier decided to desert the desert in the desert
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the headof the bass drum
9) When shot at, the dove dove in the the bushes
10) I did not object to the object
11)They were too close to the door to close it
12) The buck does funny things, when the does are present
13) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow
14) Upon seeing a tear in the painting, I shed a tear
15) I had subject the subject to a series of tests
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Brzoza
Engine Management and ECU Remapping
1
02 October 2015 05:26 PM