english is so difficult,thats why i love my own language,read n rate please?

Question

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.
Anonymous

Some 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) There is no time like the present, he said it was time to present the present.
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.
1 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.

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?

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 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 come! Mom isn't Mop?

GO FIGURE! That's American English.

unlike Sanskrit english made its own rules of pronounciation & Grammar in a different way based on the words derivated from

example CH is pronounced as ka wen the word is derived from greek example
character = karakter
CH is pronounced as sha wen the word is from french
ex champagne,chateau

similarly with singulars & plurals.

Answer 1

thumbs up! =)

Answer 2

Now I see why people say English is the hardest language to learn! I'm glad I grew up in the States!

Answer 3

I too love the english language and I hate it when people dont use it properly. I enjoyed reading your post and I am going to save it for my daughter when she is older. If I had this to refer to when I was in school, I think i would have gotten a better grade in english.
THanks

Answer 4

IF ENGLISH HAS MADE YOU TO DO SO MUCH RESEARCH IN SINGULARS AND PLURALS & ,PRONUNCIATIONS IT SEEMS THAT IT IS NOT DIFF CULT FOR YOU AFTER ALL THIS Y IS OUR FOREIGN LANGUAGE. EXCEPTION IS IN EVERY LANGUAGE THAT MADE IT SOMETHING UNIQUE IT SEAMS YOU ARE SIMPLY SHOWING YOUR KNOWLEDGE IN THE LANGUAGE RATHER THAN ASKING SUCH QUESTION

Answer 5

...And the Americans have increased there alert status to "Bragg about their superior fire-power" and considering "form an alliance with a real military state". And if things get worse they will go to the higher level of "get NATO backing to invade illegally" or move to there top level of "nuke the offending country" ! john

Answer 6

wow that was phenomenal..ive never put so much effort into writing something
so ur comparing english to sanskrit..r u indian?
yes english is crazy, but i llike it :)

Answer 7

King of hard for people that visit USA right, Espanol its easy.

Answer 8

o.k. that was long and funny
thank goodness I don't have to learn English as a second language

Answer 9

Wow if that confused you then you really need to stay away from us southern people.

Answer 10

that was a llllllllooooooooooonnnnnnnnnngggggg but really funny joke*_*.......even though it took me about ten min. to read the thing.....lol!