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From: "Cece" <>
Subject: A little ENGLISH Trivia !!!!
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:52:27 -0400


Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present
the present.
A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a series of test.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend ?

Lets face it- English is a crazy language.

There is no egg in eggplant no ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England of French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore it 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 that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham.

If 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?

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 English speakers 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, have 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 your house
can burn up as it burns down, in which
you fill in a form by filling it out and 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.

P.S. Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?

P.S: Yes, you rode the horse on the road.

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