http://www.englishforums.com/English/WordsPunsJokes/Forum15.htmWhere an utterly useless word is submitted on a regular basis– and now we've thrown in a pun and a joke.enXMOD (Build: 3607.32596)http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#800669Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:18:22 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:800669adhamdodi0http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#800669http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-800669.xmlPretty amazing and smart actually!... There must be a reason for that and only english historians can explain it. I think these kind of paradoxes in English language exist in other languages as well! I am an Arab, and in Arabic we do have these kind of funny "strange" expressions! I think it is kind of sense-of-humor or trickiness whatever applicable, isn't? Cheers.. .. ... .. .http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#799279Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:35:13 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:799279Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#799279http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-799279.xmli think with that kind of an imagination the person who failed you was a dud.http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#267835Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:12:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:267835Dede2http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#267835http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-267835.xmlyour topic is right 100%, But I think this is cute in some timehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#266840Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:266840simplyblessedwithlove3http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#266840http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-266840.xmlJohn_jeni wrote: and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. I used to think guinea pig was a pig from Guinea.http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#259366Fri, 22 May 2009 17:12:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:259366Nef4http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#259366http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-259366.xmlThank you for a lot of laughs! You're right. It's much funnier (and stranger) than English speakers usually realize. I especially liked the lines about the vegetarian/humanitarian and the alarm clock that goes off by going on.http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#259347Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:259347Mskt20055http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#259347http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-259347.xmlreally it's unknown langauge thanx so much for great topic mskthttp://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#257619Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:12:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:257619Matress6http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#257619http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-257619.xmlLanguages are really not like mathematics!!http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#257166Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:12:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:257166Dj Bueno7http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htm#257166http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-257166.xmlIn what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital? I know these interesting facts-thanks for sharinghttp://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htmThu, 22 Jan 2009 18:12:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:256948John_jeni8http://www.englishforums.com/English/IsntEnglishAFunnyLanguage/dbzbk/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments15-256948.xmlThere is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple... Is cheese the plural of choose? 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? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we ex