Month: January 2007

  • English

    English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger;
    neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England
    or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which
    aren’t sweet, are meat. 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?
    If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth? One
    goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? 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 English speakers 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 wise guy 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.

    English was invented by people, not computers, and
    it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at
    all That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights
    are out, they are invisible.

    PS. – Why doesn’t “Buick” rhyme with
    “quick”

    You lovers of the English
    language might enjoy this

    There is a two-letter word that perhaps has
    more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is
    “UP.”

    It’s easy to
    understand
    UP    , meaning toward the sky or at the
    top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we
    wake
    UP    ?  At a meeting, why does a
    topic come
    UP    ?  Why do we
    speak
    UP     and why are the
    officers
    UP     for election and why is it
    UP     to the secretary to
    write
    UP     a report?

    We
    call
    UP     our friends.  And we use it to
    brighten
    UP     a room,
    polish
    UP     the

    Silver, we
    warm
    UP     the leftovers and
    clean
    UP     the kitchen.  We
    lock
    UP     the house and some guys
    fix
    UP     the old car.  At other times
    the little word has real special meaning.  People stir     UP trouble, line
    UP     for tickets,
    work
    UP     an appetite, and
    think     UP
    excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed     UP is
    special    .

    And
    this
    UP     is confusing:  A drain must be
    opened
    UP     because it is
    stopped     UP. We open UP a store in the
    morning but we close it
    UP     at night.

    We seem to be pretty
    mixed
    UP     about
    UP    ! To be
    knowledgeable about the proper uses of
    UP    , look
    the word
    UP     in the dictionary.  In a
    desk-sized dictionary, it takes
    UP     almost 1/4th of the page and
    can add
    UP     to about thirty definitions. If
    you are
    UP     to it, you might try
    building
    UP     a list of the many
    ways
    UP     is used.  It will
    take
    UP     a lot of your time, but if you
    don’t give
    UP    , you
    may wind
    UP     with a hundred or more. When it
    threatens to rain, we say it is clouding
    UP    .  When the sun comes out we say
    it is clearing     UP.

    When it
    rains, it wets the earth and often messes things
    UP    .

    When it
    doesn’t rain for awhile, things dry
    UP    .

    One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap
    it
    UP    , for
    now my time is     UP
    , so……….. it is time to
    shut
    UP    ..

     

  • me as a baby

     

  • I’ve been tagged

    Ok, I have been tagged. Raleyfamily felt the need to tag me lol.
    The rules are that you have to name six weird things about yourself, and then tag six more people who have to do the same thing.
    well……… lets see…… weird things about me….. Boy I am just weird period lol.

    1. I love snow. Most adults seem to hate the stuff but I love it. I say if it is going to be cold then I may as well have snow.
    2. I write all things that need to be done (going to dr, dentist, church functions, etc) on THREE calenders. Two of them are hanging in our house and one is an appointment type book that can be carried around with me. Four if you count my husbands that he needs to carry with him too lol.
    3. I hate socks. I refuse to wear socks or pantyhoes unless I absolutly have to. I hate the things.
    4. I hate underwear/panties whatever you want to call them. I only wear them when it is that time of the month
    5. I have post it notes hanging all over the courner of out bedroom that the computer is in with all sorts of stuff like email addresses, books I want to read etc.
    6. I like the dark. It drives my husband batty sometimes but artifical light tends to hurt my eyes. I would rather just work in the dark when the sun goes down. the way we have fixed that is we have hung up a string of Christmas lights so when it gets dark we can still see. Just go plug in the lights and it works and doesnt hurt my eyes. We let the children use regular lights in their room though as none of them seem to share my problem lol

    Ok now to tag 6 people
    1 joiedevivre184
    2 Mom_to_3_girls
    3 MamaLambNC
    4 edifytheBody
    5 heirbyadoption
    6 ProudToBeAChristianFruitcake

    Look forward to reading what you have to say.