English
Just 4 Fun...
In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a
driveway?
Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?
Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a
shipment, but when we transport something by ship, it's called
cargo?
Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who
ride bikes called cyclists?
In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the
second hand?
Why is it called a TV set when you get only one?
Why can your nose run and your feet smell?
Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane:
If olive oil is made of olives, what do they make baby oil from?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian consume?
A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that
stings.
If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions,
why areshameless and shameful behavior the same?
English is a language in which you can turn a light on
and you can turn a light off and you can turn a light out,
but you can't turn a light in;
In which the sun comes up and goes down, but prices
go up and come down.
In which your nose can simultaneously burn up and burn down and your
car can slow up and slow down, in which you can fill in a form by
filling out a form and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on.
Tricky Plurals
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We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the
feminine, she, shis and shim.
Lets face it, English is a crazy language!
bleh digunakan untuk status ym.... :D
In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a
driveway?
Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?
Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a
shipment, but when we transport something by ship, it's called
cargo?
Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who
ride bikes called cyclists?
In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the
second hand?
Why is it called a TV set when you get only one?
Why can your nose run and your feet smell?
Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for the verbally insane:
If olive oil is made of olives, what do they make baby oil from?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian consume?
A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that
stings.
If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions,
why areshameless and shameful behavior the same?
English is a language in which you can turn a light on
and you can turn a light off and you can turn a light out,
but you can't turn a light in;
In which the sun comes up and goes down, but prices
go up and come down.
In which your nose can simultaneously burn up and burn down and your
car can slow up and slow down, in which you can fill in a form by
filling out a form and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on.
Tricky Plurals
===============
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the
feminine, she, shis and shim.
Lets face it, English is a crazy language!
bleh digunakan untuk status ym.... :D
