[Loch-Ruadh] OT-Thought you might like this

[Robyn Cantley]

And they wonder why people make mistooks.... Why English Is So Difficult!

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.

Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English

> > > > 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. > > > 8) At the 
>Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a 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) After a 
>number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number. > > > 19) Upon seeing the 
>tear in the painting I shed a tear. > > > 20) I had to subject the subject 
>to a series of tests. > > > 21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate 
>friend? > > > 22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind!  For example... If you have a 
rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

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?  
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 folks who grew up speaking English 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, across the ages, and it reflects the 
creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights 
are out, they are nvisible.
That's about enough of this stuff.

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