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« on: August 09, 2006, 12:10:40 PM »


THE ENGLISH 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.
 If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the
 bough on a tree!
 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.
 There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
 pineapple.
 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?
 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'm now confused how about you?   Undecided

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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2006, 12:33:18 PM »



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« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2006, 11:36:08 PM »

 Huh now i am having a mindgrain (but my head do not have any grain) Huh

i am confused to!!! Shocked
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