Is English a funny language?!


Question: English is a funny 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? 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, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?


Answers: English is a funny 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? 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, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

Yes English is a very funny language. People who made up the language were drunk :))

Wow, you have certainly given that some thought. I guess it kind of is a funny language, but then again, almost all languages are like that.

yes it is
i like the way u think

a ghoti is something that swims around in the ocean
look at this:
lauGH
wOmen
acTIon

I am often criticised because its not my first language.

Like neighbour, should it not be nabor? Well stupid me I guess huh?

What about words like colour, and color, and what about i before e except after c and sometimes Y.... sometimes Y. Interesting isn't it. Much easier to learn french or arabic than it is to learn english. No wonder everyone over there is so twisted in knots. Was that Twisted Sister? Man they were wierd where the not? LOL! LMAO! NICE HAIR BRUCE!

I just read that to Khal & he roared with laughter, he loved it.

He wants to know why we spell the city Reading & not Redding.
Why there are = their & there.
Why we say a cup of charlie, when we mean tea.

He says English is very hard to learn & to pronounce. There are many times when i ramble on that i see him just staring at me, & i wonder just how much of what i just said did he understand? (&&& his English is very good) maybe its my rambling, lol.

hmmmmmmmmmm interesting

i totally agree... it is a crazy and a funny language....

i had sumthing on the same topic to share too... =)

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chk dese .... gramatically they may be correct but logically.... i think the whole language is insane!



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