English - A difficult language
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:26 pm
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.
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.