You think English is easy?
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.
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?
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. 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? 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.

Sometyms ehnn....