English - A difficult language

[RL3AO]

22 Reasons Why English is Hard to Learn!

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. A bass 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 oarsmen about how to row.
13. They were too close to the door to close it.
14. The buck does funny things when 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 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. The accountant at the music store records records of the records.

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# If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
# One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
# If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
# If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

* Recite at a play and play at a recital?
* Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
* How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
* while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
* while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

# 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.


Food
Mood
Smooth

All three have oo.

Good
Hood
Wood

All three have oo.

However, the first three are pronounced differently than the last three.

[southerngale]

hehe - I love reading stuff like this.


What’s Up in the English language?

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

* It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
* At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ?
* Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election?
* Why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
* We call UP our friends.
* We brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
* We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
* People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
* To be dressed is one thing, to be dressed UP is special, but to play dress-UP is something all together different.
* And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
* We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
* We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
* To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
* If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
* When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
* When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
* One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP , so............ it is time to shut UP !

Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?

[brunota2003]

Ummm...Wake up and stare up at the ceiling?

[StormingB81]

hehe - I love reading stuff like this.


What’s Up in the English language?

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

* It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
* At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ?
* Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election?
* Why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
* We call UP our friends.
* We brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
* We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
* People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
* To be dressed is one thing, to be dressed UP is special, but to play dress-UP is something all together different.
* And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
* We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
* We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP !
* To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
* If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP , you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
* When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
* When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
* One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP , so............ it is time to shut UP !

Oh . . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?

Wake Up and call it a night? Im confiused! lol