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Why is English so hard to learn ?
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) I did not object to the object.
9) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
10) They were too close to the door to close it.
11) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
12) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
13) I shed my clothes in the shed.
Let's face it - English is a ridiculous
language.
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in
a hamburger; neither apple nor pine in a pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England, nor French
fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't
sweet, are meat.
You cannot buy boots in Boots, and the Superdrug chain is a
great disappointment
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 bakers bake, but grocers don't groce?
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?
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?
We 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 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, 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,
isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out,
they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are
invisible.
And finally, how about when you want to shut down your
computer you have to hit "START"
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deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the
olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll
raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed
ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.