Sayings – English Sayings – WE TAKE ENGLISH FOR GRANTED.

Sayings – English Sayings – WE TAKE ENGLISH FOR GRANTED.

   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?

  Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

  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.