Randal & Al, -et al: -not a bad pun Randal, Oh but but now youve started something.... Our English Language (derived from Olde-german, the German king of England, --"Kings English"?) ... If youve learned to speak fluent English, you must be a genius! This little treatise on the curious language we share is only for the brave; -peruse at your leisure, English lovers and teachers all, -for reasons why the English language may be so difficult for us to learn:
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>1) The bandage 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 sour dessert in the desert.
>7) There being "no time like the present", -he thus thought it time to present the present.
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A bass fish-logo was painted on the head of the 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 row of Oarsmen about how to row.
>13) They were too close to the door to close it.
>14) The big buck does odd things when the attractive does are present.
>15) The seamstress is the sewer that objected to the odor of the sewer line.
>16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his smart sow to help sow the new crop.
>17) The wind was strong enough to wind the sails of the Oldmill.
>18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
>19) Seeing the tear in the painting, is enough to make one shed a tear.
>20) Without changing the subject, they had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
>21) How can one intimate this to their most intimate friend?
One might also do well to realize that.... -------------------------------
A.) Theres no egg in an eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English-muffins didnt originate in England, nor did French-fries originate in France. and Sweetmeats strangely are candies, while sweetbreads are an unsweet meat!
B.) Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea-pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
C.) And why is it that writers write, but fingers dont fing; grocers dont groce; and hammers dont ham?
D.) If the plural of tooth is teeth, -why isnt the plural of booth then not beeth?
E.) One goose, two geese, thus one moose, two meese? Doesnt it seem strange that you can make amends, -yet not one amend.
F.) If teachers taught, -why then didnt preachers praught?
G.) If a vegetarian eats vegetables, -indeed then a humanitarian eats humans?
H.) In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
I.) People can actually have noses that run, -and feet that smell?
J.) We ship by truck, -while sending cargo by ship?
K.) If you have a bunch of odds and ends as above, --then get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? --Is it an odd, or an end?
L.) French-explorer Cadillac would have been astonished to drive a Cadillac bearing a facsimile-Logo of his family Heraldry!
(Hey, -although not quite succinct, just thought ide throw this last one in for its aptness!)...
