|
1. You are in...
|
|
|
|
 |
|
2. Please choose a... |
3. Use the menu to view your...
|
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
| Choose an article with these menus. To return to your last choices use your browser's BACK button. |
|
|
| Fun
Stuff
|
|
|
|
| Proverbs
Etc. |
|
|
|
Loading
• Enter search text below.
• Press the "Search" button.
• Click "X" to return here.
|
 |
|
Asylum for the Verbally Insane
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:
- The bandage was wound around the wound.
- The farm was used to produce produce.
- The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
- We must polish the Polish furniture.
- He could lead if he would get the lead out.
- The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
- Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
- A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
- When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
- I did not object to the object.
- The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
- There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
- They were too close to the door to close it.
- The buck does funny things when the does are present.
- A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
- To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
- The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
- After a number of injections my jaw got number.
- Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
- I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
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.
- A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
- 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?
You contributions to this feature will be appreciated.
|
