Leghome Posted February 22, 2021 Posted February 22, 2021 We really do speak a strange language English Isn't Easy Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning. A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym. You think English is easy? I think a retired English teacher was bored...THIS IS GREAT! (Not I.)Read all the way to the end. This took a lot of work to put together! 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 . 😎 A bass was painted on the head of the 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) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear. 19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? 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 or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. 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? 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? 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 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? 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 and 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, 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. P . S. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'? 1 Quote
Mikstudie Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 Awesome read that I read., Why does a light switch have on and off on it, if its on you know its on, if its off you cant see to read it anyway... 1 Quote
MC1of80 Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 Then, if hot water is hot, why do you need a hot water heater? Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? When a building is being built it's called a building but when it's done it's still called a building and not a built? Things to think about.... 1 Quote
Dtret Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 Why does the atm in the drivethru have brail? 1 2 Quote
Dtret Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 Just now, Canuck said: Goose... Geese Moose... Moose Deer...deer 1 Quote
Canuck Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 Just now, Dtret said: Deer...deer Steer... Steers 1 Quote
Dtret Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, MC1of80 said: Then, if hot water is hot, why do you need a hot water heater? Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? When a building is being built it's called a building but when it's done it's still called a building and not a built? Things to think about.... And why do you call it a hot water heater. When it’s just heating water. 1 Quote
Dtret Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 Why is it called a PIN number. Personal identification number number? 1 Quote
Dtret Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 If you call a water heater a water heater than why don’t you call a furnace an air heater? Quote
Dtret Posted February 23, 2021 Posted February 23, 2021 1 hour ago, MC1of80 said: Then, if hot water is hot, why do you need a hot water heater? Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway? When a building is being built it's called a building but when it's done it's still called a building and not a built? Things to think about.... I think it should be called a builting. Just saying Quote
cny first gen 71 Posted February 24, 2021 Posted February 24, 2021 5 hours ago, Dtret said: Why is it called a PIN number. Personal identification number number? Or vin number. That's one of my pet peeves pin number- vin number- atm machine 🙄 Quote
Boots Posted February 28, 2021 Posted February 28, 2021 very cool...however we have colours you have colors...work labour vs labor..yet our favourite is the same Quote
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