Topic: Appreciating English

[cb750k7]

Here are some reasons to be grateful you don't have to learn English at this point in your life:

1. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

2. Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

3. Have noses that run and feet that smell?

4. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?

5. Why is it you can park in the driveway and drive on the parkways?




Feel free to add more...

[scunny]

6. why is it alright to prick your finger but not finger your prick?

[tomkimberly]

6. why is it alright to prick your finger but not finger your prick?

With that, I would say you guys down under are just sick!   

[razor02097]

you do the turn in at night   

you do the in turn at night   

you do turn at in the night   




government intelligence?   




People typically call an Automatic Teller Machine an ATM machine   

[Steve F]

WTH is a HOT WATER heater?

[Inigo Montoya]

You park in a driveway and drive in a parkway!

[The_Crippler]

Allegedly, the playwrite George Bernard Shaw once said that the English language breaks its own rules so often, that one should be able to spell "fish" as "ghoti."

• The GH from "enough"
• The O from "women"
• And the TI from "nation"

[Operator]

+1 Crippler, I had heard of that years ago but long fogotten it

Why is it that we have multiple words for the same thing

You can sit on a sofa, couch, or chesterfield ....all the same thing

And why do pants and shorts come in pairs? there is only one. There is no pair of shirts!

And one of the most commonly mispronounced word in the english language is "pronunciation"

[tomkimberly]

You can live for the day.

You can watch it live.

[sangyo soichiro]

A Chinese friend asked me once about why a car alarm "goes off."

[razor02097]

Its better to be pissed off then pissed on...

[MJL]

When your timepiece hangs on the wall, the time is "x" o'clock  but when it's on your wrist it's never "x" o'watch.

Comb and tomb have the same "omb" but sound differently

[razor02097]

When your timepiece hangs on the wall, the time is "x" o'clock  but when it's on your wrist it's never "x" o'watch.

Comb and tomb have the same "omb" but sound differently

plus its called a wrist watch.... wouldn't it be wrist clock?  To watch your wrist clock instead of watch your watch?  If watch ment a wrist clock then when someone says "watch this" do they want the time or are they insulting you?

ouch my head hurts...

[MJL]

This is turning into a George Carlin/Gallagher bit 

If two airplanes come close to each other in the air, why is it called a "near miss"? Shouldn't it be a near hit? It's a near miss if they hit. "Aw, they nearly missed."

[the technological J]

how many take a leak.... if u were smart you would leave it