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Our
Crazy Language...
Did you know that
"verb" is a noun?
How can you look
up words in a dictionary if you can't spell them?
If a word is misspelled
in a dictionary, how would we ever know?
If two mouses are
mice and two louses are lice, why aren't two houses
hice?
If Webster wrote
the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
If you wrote a letter,
perhaps you bote your tongue?
If you've read a
book, you can reread it. But wouldn't this also
mean that you would have to "member" somebody in
order to remember them?
Is it a coincidence
that the only 15 letter word that can be spelled
without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable?
Why can't you make
another word using all the letters in "anagram"?
Why do fat chance
and slim chance mean the same thing?
Why do overlook
and oversee mean opposite things?
Why do people use
the word "irregardless"?
Why do some people
type "cool" as "kewl?"
Why do we say something
is out of whack? What is a whack?
Why do we say something's
out of order when its broken but we never say in
of order when it works?
Why does "cleave"
mean both split apart and stick together?
Why does "slow down"
and "slow up" mean the same thing?
Why does flammable
and inflammable mean the same thing?
Why does the Chinese
ideogram for trouble symbolize two women living
under one roof?
Why does X stand
for a kiss and O stand for a hug?
Why doesn't "onomatopoeia"
sound like what it is?
Why don't we say
"why" instead of "how come"?
Why is "crazy man"
an insult, while to insert a comma and say "Crazy,
man!" is a compliment?
Why is abbreviation
such a long word?
Why is dyslexic
so hard to spell?
Why is it so hard
to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
Why is it that no
word in the English language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, or purple?
Why is it that the
word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?
Why is it that we
recite at a play and play at a recital?
Why is it that writers
write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham?
Why is the alphabet
in that order? Is it because of that song?
Why isn't "palindrome"
spelled the same way backwards?
Why isn't phonetic
spelled the way it sounds?
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