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13-11-2018, 04:12 PM
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English Is A Crazy Language!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
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 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?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a 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 a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And 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,
And in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And in closing..........
If Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop.???
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13-11-2018, 04:36 PM
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All very true Cherie and we can shut down our computer by using the start button.
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13-11-2018, 06:13 PM
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Hi there Longdogs and thankyou for polnting out another crazy phenomenom to me. I guess there are plenty of situations like this in the wacky world we live in!
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13-11-2018, 06:16 PM
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No horses in a car engine.
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13-11-2018, 06:39 PM
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Yep, you're quite right besoeker, even if you drive a Mustang!
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13-11-2018, 10:47 PM
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Brilliant Cherie.....
How can a building be 'Raised to the Ground?'
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13-11-2018, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
Brilliant Cherie.....
How can a building be 'Raised to the Ground?'
Actually the expression is "razed to the ground".

Think "razor".
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14-11-2018, 12:06 AM
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Originally Posted by bruce ->
actually the expression is "razed to the ground".

Think "razor".
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14-11-2018, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce ->
Actually the expression is "razed to the ground".

Think "razor".
Thanks Bruce, I never knew that......
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14-11-2018, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
Brilliant Cherie.....
How can a building be 'Raised to the Ground?'
Hi there OldGreyFox, nice to meet you and thank you for such a 'brilliant' reply to my thread. Being a lover of the English Language, not only did I find the article funny, I also found it informative. Keep watching for part 2!
 
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