I taught Elementary Education for 17 years as I was also a Pastor of a church (bi-vocational). Teaching English was one of the hardest classes to teach. We have over 800,00 words in the English language. We know about 2,500 of them by the age of 18 but we mostly only use 250 words over and over - strange isnt it? There are no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbread, which arent sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are squares, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is that writers write, but fingers dont fing, grocers dont groce,, and hammers dont ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isnt the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose? In what language do people recite 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? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell on another? When a house burns up, it burn down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on! When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my pocket watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it ~!
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 03:38:21 +0000
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