Did you know that the English language is really crazy?!


Question: There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not 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, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

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?

Ship by truck, 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 hell one day and cold as hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

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.


Answers: There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins were not 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, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?

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?

Ship by truck, 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 hell one day and cold as hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

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.

hehehe sweetbreads are bull testicles.

right never new that

ok....

hamburg is a city in germany where hamburgers where invented

Hamburger was named after Hamburg

WOW......i never thought of this matter that far in depth......good info

wow

Frickin sweet, where did you come up with that? Love it

english is crazy

dude ... you must be BORED!!!!!
or CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew it was crazy before...but I guess I never really though about HOW crazy until now :p

Honey your asking stuff that we'll never know..... Its just how we talk i guess. O well

lol, clever.

-laughs- Hilariousness.
I'm told by all of my foreign friends that English is the hardest language to learn. And THAT is one of the reasons why.

thats not all just an english problem there bucko!

wow

uhhhhhhhhhh Question do u really want me to answer all these questions?? Theres a simple answer to all of these: Pure logic thts the answer for every question u asked...

BRILLIANT!

If quizzes are quizzical, then what are tests? (sorry, had to put it =) )

because.
Now eat your veggies.

this is very interesting...... i enjoyed reading this...and you my friend...have WAY too much time on your hands.

It's a good point that you talk about. I am not a english-speaking native so during the time that I have spent to learn it (that last until today) I had noted that some word do not fit to its grammatical root. But what can I do, it's imperative to learn such language in the modern world.

Wow I have never looked at the english language that way. Yes it is pretty messed up.lol. Thanks for letting me see our language in a weird perspective! Lol now everytime I go out to eat I am going to give people the lecture on why do we call a hamburger a hamburger when there is no ham in it!

wow you r totally right
englush is crazy!!

FYI, many words originate from languages and cultures that are not Latin based.

Pineapple is so called because it resembles a pine cone.

Hamburger is a Hamburg Steak - as in from Hamburg, Germany

We most certainly drive on driveway. My car does not fly from the street 100 feet down and into my garage. A drive way is a passage for driving from the street to the garage or car port. A parkway is a landscaped highway. The park is in reference to the landscaping and park like appearance, not what you do on it. "Park" has more than one definition. When you take the kids to the park to play, do you go to a parking lot?

Essentially your missive is an expression of a lack of research and ethnocentrism.

I used to know why the hamburger is called that i think it was named after a place in Europe where is was invented.

You are so right! A very nice and fun essay. I don't mean to sound crude, yet I have to add that an asteroid is found outside the hemisphere while a hemorrhoid is found on...well you know where they are found.

Well worth a star. Thanks

That is true. Very good.

hehehe, very crazy hun, pmsl

Brilliant



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