English is a crazy language
Let’s face it guys!
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine Inpineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England .
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quick and 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 housecan burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it outand in which an alarm goes off by going on.
If Dad is Pop, how come! Mom isn’t Mop?
GO FIGURE! That’s American English.
Got this through blogging..hehe.
