04.10.2010
30, Mijas, Spain
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburgers; neither apple or pine in pineapple. And while no one knows what is in a hotdog, you can be pretty sure it isn't canine.
English muffins were not invented in England, nor French fries in France.
Sweermeats are candies, while sweetbreads, wich aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But what if we explore its paradoxes, we find tha quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and 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 grose, and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? 1 goose, 2 geese. So 1 moose, two meese? Is cheese the plural of choose? 1 mouse, 2 mice. 1 louse, 2 lice? 1 house, 2 hice?
We take English for granted. But what if we explore its paradoxes, we find tha quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and 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 grose, and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? 1 goose, 2 geese. So 1 moose, two meese? Is cheese the plural of choose? 1 mouse, 2 mice. 1 louse, 2 lice? 1 house, 2 hice?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegeterian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play, and play at a recital? Ship by truck or car and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run, and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
How can the weather be hot as heck one day and cold as heck the other? When a house burns up, its burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on. You get in and out of a car, yet you get on and off a bus. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
English is a silly language... it doesn't know if it is coming or going!!!
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