Monday, May 1, 2017

ENGLISH IS A CRAZY LANGUAGE

There is no EGG in EGGPLANT nor a HAM in HAMBURGER; neither APPLE nor PINE in PINEAPPLE. MUFFINS weren’t invented in ENGLAND. QUICKSAND can work slowly, BOXING RINGS are SQUARE, and a GUINEA PIG is nether from GUINEA nor it is a PIG.

And why it is 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 TEACHERS taught why didn’t PREACHERS praught? If a VEGETARIAN eats vegetables, what does a HUMANITARIAN eat?

In what other language do people recite at play and play at a recital? We ship by TRUCK but send cargo by SHIP. We have NOSES that run and FEET that smell. We PARK in DRIVEWAY and DRIVE in a PARKWAY. And how can a SLIM CHANCE and FAT CHANCE be the same, while a WISE MAN and WISE GUY are opposites?


You have to marvel at the UNIQUE LUNACY of the language in which your HOUSE can BURN UP as it burns down, which you FILL IN a form by FILLING IT OUT, and which an ALARM goes OFF by going ON! And IN CLOSING, if father POP how come mother’s not MOP?

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