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Hi Oscar,
Don't encourage him, mate - he'll only become even harder to stump!
🙂)
Only kidding!
🙂)
Regards,
John Ward
"Oscar" <asta@la.vista.net> wrote in message
news:Q77Td.172751$K7.103542@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Fascinating (vascinating, fascineting?) .... maybe you should get out more
> often, a night on the town might help
🙂
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>
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> "Bill Leaming" <n4gix@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:a5jdf2puco09$.v0r001gbj9k6$.dlg@40tude.net...
> > On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:15:59 GMT, James Hodson wrote:
> >
> > > Also, whilst I'm at it, the plural of virus is viruses, not virii. In
> > > the Latin, vir means man, viri means men.
> >
> > English is such a strange and inconsistent language... e.g.,
> >
> > 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,
> > and 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.
> >
> > Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:
> >
> > 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) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of
> > a 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) After a number of Novocain 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) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
> >
> > Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For
> > example...
> >
> > If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the
> > bough on a tree!
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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 folks who grew up speaking English should be
> > committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
> >
> > In what other 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 wiseguy 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.
> >
> > If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?
> >
> > Bill
>
>
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