They say English is much easier to learn then French
Can you read these correctly 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?
21) Can you
record this record for me.
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
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.