ridgerunner Quarter-Dollar
Number of posts : 754 Age : 64 Location : Fairbury, IL Registration date : 2008-10-07
| Subject: We take English for granted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:02 am | |
| There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
A Guinea pig is not a Guinea nor is it a pig.
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
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?
If Dad is Pop, how come Mom isn't Mop? | |
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