Gender: Male Location: Dreaming...Or am I living...
For everyone who speaks English
Man I feel sorry for all of you who had to learn english as a second language.
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English;
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 his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example... If you have a
rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England
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?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
What do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking
English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
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?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in
which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which
you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm
goes off by going on.
I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
Gender: Male Location: Dreaming...Or am I living...
more of um!!!!!!!
they may overlap sorry
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 his dessert 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 head of the bass
> drum.
> > 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
> > 10) I did not object to the object.
> > 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
> > 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to
> row.
> > 13) They were too close to the door to close it.
> > 14) The buck does funny things when the does are
> present.
> > 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a
> sewer line.
> > 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his
> sow to sow.
> > 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
> > 18) After a number of injections my jaw got
> number.
> > 19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a
> tear.
> > 20) I had to subject the subject to a series of
> tests.
> > 21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate
> friend?
> >
> > Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There
> is
> > no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither
> apple
> > nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't
> > 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, 2 indices? > >
> > How about this? You park in the driveway and drive
> on
> > the parkway? 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 your house can burn up as it burns down,
> in
> > which you fill in a form by filling it out and in
> > which, an 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.
> >
> > That is why, when the stars are out, they are
> visible,
> > but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
> >
> > PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
> >
tell me about it! i am home-schooling my son. it's easier teaching him spanish as a second language than it is teaching him spelling & grammar for english - the language we use every day!
I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough. Wrong. We only die once, we live every day!
Make poverty history.
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