If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
Why does your nose run, but your feet smell?
Who first looked at a cow and thought, Hey I think I’ll squeeze those things and drink what comes out.
Why does the sum lighten our hair but darken our skin?
Why are some places we sit in called stands?
If women wear a pair of pants and a pair of earrings, why don’t they wear a pair of bras?
If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?
Why don’t you ever see headlines that say, “Psychic wins
lotto?”
Why is it called “after dark” when it is really “after light”?
"i was wondering why...is why but not y"
well...y didn't actually exist in the anglo-saxon times. it comes from a little d that had a line thru the top of it. it had a th sound....so ye olde shoppe was actually the olde shoppe when spoken. i think the y got it's sound from the normans when they conquered england in the 1066(?)
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.
(my friend sent me this in an email)