ക ENGLISH IS HARD! Face It..

Oh yes in my last entry I said Chinese is one tough language (personal opinion) as it has many variations and English too is not spared. Thanks to Lee Glen for this and also to Al Lowe who has flashed me the green light. I often asked about weird English just for the fun of it like the plural of box is boxes and why ox is not oxes or why is it we say "raining cats and dogs"? English refers to England, Polish refers to Poland and why not Hollish to Holland? This may not be new to some as with the speed of internet it has been in circulation for some time. Anyway have fun and go bananaz over weird English, good news is links are provided for easy reference. Any idea what is the longest word in any major dictionary? I just learned it's "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" a total of 45 letters, with sincere thanks to my English guru,  Kevin of "Back To English".

English is Hard! Face it: English is a crazy language.

Try to sight-read these sentences correctly:

1. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
2. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
3. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
4. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
5. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
6. An alarm goes off when it’s on.
7. Boxing rings are square.
8. English muffins aren’t from England nor French fries from France.
9. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
10. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
11. How can we have noses that run and feet that smell?
12. I did not object to the object.
13. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
14. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
15. If teachers teach and preachers preach, why does a teacher taught, but no preacher ever praught?
16. People recite at plays and play at recitals.
17. Quicksand works slowly.
18. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
19. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
20. The bandage was wound around the wound.
21. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
22. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
23. The farm was used to produce produce.
24. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
25. The plural of goose is geese, but the plural of moose is not meese.
26. The plural of tooth is teeth, but the plural of booth is not beeth.
27. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
28. The wind was too strong to wind the sail
29. There is neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
30. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger.
31. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row
32. They were too close to the door to close it.
33. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
34. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
35. We must polish the Polish furniture.
36. We ship by truck but send cargo by ship.
37. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
38. Why doesn’t Buick rhyme with quick?
39. Writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham.
40. You can make amends but not one amend.
41. You fill in a form by filling it out.
42. Your house burns up as it burns down.
43. How can inflammable and flammable means the same thing?

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.

Oh . . . one more thing:

What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night?

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