• Again, ain’t ENGLISH a Funny Language ?!


    • The bandage was wound around the wound.
    • The farm was used to produce produce.
    • The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
    • We must polish the Polish furniture.
    • He could lead if he would get the lead out.
    • The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
    • A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
    • When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
    • I did not object to the object.
    • The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
    • There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
    • They were too close to the door to close it.
    • The buck does funny things when the does are present.
    • A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
    • To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
    • The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
    • After a number of injections my jaw got number.
    • Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
    • I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
    • How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
    • Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.


    + Refer to PART I post here.

  • Ain’t ENGLISH a Funny Language ?


    • There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple …
    • 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?
    • 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?
    • 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?
    • English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France.
    • How can ‘slim chance and a fat chance‘ be the same, while ‘ wise man and a wise guy‘ are opposites!
  • In the beginning was The Plan: a 21st Century Fable


    • In the beginning was the Plan.
    • And then came the Assumptions.
    • And the Assumptions were without Form.
    • And the Plan was without Substance.
    • And Darkness was upon the faces of the Workers.
    • And they spoke among themselves saying, “It is a crock of shit and it stinks.
    • And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said, “It is a pail of dung and we cannot live with the smell.
    • And the supervisors went unto their Managers, saying, “It is a container of organic waste and it is very strong such that none may abide by it.
    • And the managers went unto their Directors, saying, “It is a vessel of fertilizer and none may abide by it.
    • And the directors went unto their Executive directors, saying, “It contains that which aids plant growth and it is very powerful.
    • And the executive directors went unto the Vice Presidents, saying, “It promotes growth and is very powerful.
    • And the vice Presidents went to the President, saying unto him, “This new plan will actively promote growth and vigor of the company with very powerful effects.
    • And the president looked upon the plan and saw that it was good.
    • And the plan became Policy.
    • And this is how shit happens.

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