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Christmas is coming soon, and I wish you all have a pleased holiday! 
For this English-language forum, everyone uses English with no other option either learning or chatting with others, you'll smile when you reading the following words, maybe someone read it previously:
Let's face it: English is a strange language.
There is no egg in eggplant, no ham in the hamburger and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England, French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square and guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth? If the teacher taught, does it follow that the preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!? Why do people recite at a play yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and drive on parkways. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down and in which you fill in a form by filling it out. And a bell is only heard once it goes!
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race(which of course isn't a race at all). That is why when the stars are out they are visible , but when the lights are out they are invisible. And why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts but when I wind up this story it ends?
And more...Some food for "thought". Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why is a person who plays the piano called pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist? Why a wise man and a wise guy opposites? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible? Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure? If you take an Oriental person and spin him round seveal times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called "Poles", why aren't people from Holland called "Holes"?
For this English-language forum, everyone uses English with no other option either learning or chatting with others, you'll smile when you reading the following words, maybe someone read it previously:
Let's face it: English is a strange language.
There is no egg in eggplant, no ham in the hamburger and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England, French fries were not invented in France. We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square and guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If writers write, how come fingers don't fing? If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth? If the teacher taught, does it follow that the preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!? Why do people recite at a play yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and drive on parkways. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down and in which you fill in a form by filling it out. And a bell is only heard once it goes!
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race(which of course isn't a race at all). That is why when the stars are out they are visible , but when the lights are out they are invisible. And why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts but when I wind up this story it ends?
And more...Some food for "thought". Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why is a person who plays the piano called pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist? Why a wise man and a wise guy opposites? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible? Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure? If you take an Oriental person and spin him round seveal times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called "Poles", why aren't people from Holland called "Holes"?
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[i][/i]The God had ever have three apples. Adam was tricked eating up one of them in Eden, and the second dropped from the tree and hit Issac Newton on his head, then what happened on the third one?Interestingly it was bit by Steve Jobs!
To this day I keep asking my husband born in US why some things are spelled or used certain way and all I get is a puzzled look on his face. 