Lets’ face it – English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hambuger; neither pine nor apple in pineapple.
English muffins weren’t invented in England, and French fries aren’t French.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore 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, two geese; so, one moose, two meese? One index, two 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?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
We ship by truck and send cargo by ship; We have noses that run and feet that smell!
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.
ha ha yeah, French Fries are Freedom Fries... lol
>>>lol!!!! i like it ,it's funny specialy the vegeterian and the humaniterian...and that we have noses that run hahaha...Good post mirkat !!
And the weather can be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another
English has lots of irregular plurals: like ox -> oxen, louse -> lice etc.
oh, it's an easy language but at least i know many native speakers who also think it's not easy