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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Ironman banned? You're kidding? Why?

Our sometimes sticky wicket American-English Mother Tongue (part two):



"Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . 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, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.. 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?

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

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?"


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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?

Originally posted by Ponderable
User 68295

well he probably just stopped playing after reaching 2486 and no earnest contenders showd up 😉

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]Our sometimes sticky wicket American-English Mother Tongue (part two):
[cut] We take English for granted. [cut] [/b]

Originally posted by Ponderable
We don't, we learned it at school.

On the other hand, the plural of spouse is spice.

Originally posted by coquette
On the other hand, the plural of spouse is spice.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
So if that's the case then the plural of mouse is mice?

Originally posted by Ice Cold
House would be hise. As an American, it's my duty to butcher the Engishes languages,

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Yous need to learn it first.

Originally posted by Ice Cold
Aye 🙂

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I'm playing a double or nothing sitngo.....ain't Texas' great.

Originally posted by Ice Cold
I have this image now of you playing strip poker in a kilt.
*showering* 😛

Rue the day I began attending to the frequent care and feeding of this thread.