3 - Interesting to know - Wonderful Language English (2)

What do you think about these expressions?

People drive in a parkway or park in a driveway?

Why does the night falls but never breaks and
the day breaks but never falls?

Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a shipment,
but when we transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and
people who ride bikes called cyclists?

In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand?

Why is it called a TV set when you get only one? (not a set in 2 or 3 or 4 etc)

Why does your nose run and your feet smell?

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor,
while dishwashing liquid is made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money is called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there any mouse-flavored cat food?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? **

Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be
committed to an asylum for becoming verbally insane:

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If olive oil is made of olives, then
what do they make baby oil from?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, then
what does a humanitarian eat?

A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings, then
why fingers don't fing and grocers don't groce.

If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that
the preacher praught?

If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions,
why are shameless and shameful behavior the same?

You can turn a light on and you can turn a light off and
you can turn a light out, but you can't turn a light in.

The sun comes up and goes down,
but prices go up and come down.

Your nose can simultaneously burn up and burn down and
your car can slow up and slow down,

You can fill in a form by filling out a form and
your alarm clock goes off by going on.

What is it that when the sun or the moon or the stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible?

Why when I wind up my watch, I start it, but
when I wind up this essay, I shall end it?

Tricky Plurals

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
if I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and
the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but
imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Now that you've smiled at least once, it's your turn to spread this stupidity and send the address of this page to someone you want to bring a smile to (maybe even a chuckle)... in other words, send it to everyone. We all need to smile every once in a while.