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Interesting to know - Wonderful Language English
1.
What is the meaning of DISEASE?
Disease means illness or sickness. Can you tell why this meaning was
assigned to it? Let us break this word like this - Dis+ease which means
where ease or comfort is not there, it means disease.
2. What
is the meaning of NEWS?
News means 'a report of recent events', or previously unknown information.
There is one more characteristic of this news, can you tell what? This can
come from any or all of them - N=North, E=East; W=West; and S=South. That
is why it is a news.
3. What is the
meaning of GOD?
People say God means the Almighty, but how? How this word name was
assigned to Him? Have you ever thought? I tell you how. God does three
jobs - He creates this world, sustains it and then destroys it. So
according to these three jobs he has been given this three-letter word.
G=Generator; O=Operator; D=Destroyer.
4. Here are 20
sentences, can you read them right the first time?
(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 the 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) Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
(19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
(20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
There is a LIE in the middle of believe.
English Is A Crazy Language
(1)There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger ....
(2)Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
(3)English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
(4)Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
(5)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 a pig nor from Guinea.
(6)And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham?
(7)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? Huh?
(8)If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it ? (Answer-- Is it odd that you have just one?)
(9)If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught?
(10)If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
(11)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?
(12)Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
(13)Have noses that run and feet that smell?
(14)How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites?
(15)You have to marvel at 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.
(16)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.
(17)That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights
are out, they are invisible.
(18)And finally, why doesn't Buick rhyme with Quick?
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