ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORDS, ODDITIES &
FUN PAGE.
FUN PAGE.
I don't know who spent the time to work these out, but I'm sure it was not an easy task.
As you will see, the second word is formed using all the letters of the first one.
DORMITORY = DIRTY ROOM.
THE EYES = THEY SEE.
MOTHER IN LAW = WOMAN HITLER.
THE MORSE CODE = HERE COME DOTS.
A DECIMAL POINT= I'M A DOT IN PLACE.
THE EARTHQUAKES = THAT QUEER SHAKE.
ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE.
DESPERATION = A ROPE ENDS IT.
PRESBYTERIAN = BEST IN PRAYER.
ASTRONOMER = MOON STARER.
SNOOZE ALARMS = ALAS NO MORE Z'S.
ANIMOSITY = IS NO AMITY.
GEORGE BUSH = HE BUGS GORE.
PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA = TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS.
UP This word has a whole lot of meanings. Maybe more than any other two letter word.
It's easy to understand UP, meaning towards the sky, or at the top of the list.
But then, in the mornings, we wake UP.
At a meeting, a topic comes UP.
Officers are UP for election, and it is UP to the secretary to write UP a report.
We call UP our friends.
We brighten UP a room.
We polish UP the silver.
We warm UP the leftovers, and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house, and some men (and women) fix UP the old car.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
For an occasion, we dress UP.
A drain must be opened UP, because it is stopped UP.
A store is opened UP in the morning, and also closed UP at night.
Are you mixed UP about UP yet??!!
To find out about the proper uses of UP, look it UP in the dictionary.
In a desk sized dictionary, it takes UP almost a quarter of the page, and can add UP to about 30 definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might want to try to build 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 uses.
When rain clouds are threatening, we say it is clouding UP, and when the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it makes the earth muddy and messes things UP, and of course when there is no rain for a while, things dry UP.
I could probably go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, as the time is UP,
so time to shut UP!!
But just one more thought,...
What is the first thing you do in the morning and last thing you do at night??
U-P !!
It's easy to understand UP, meaning towards the sky, or at the top of the list.
But then, in the mornings, we wake UP.
At a meeting, a topic comes UP.
Officers are UP for election, and it is UP to the secretary to write UP a report.
We call UP our friends.
We brighten UP a room.
We polish UP the silver.
We warm UP the leftovers, and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house, and some men (and women) fix UP the old car.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
For an occasion, we dress UP.
A drain must be opened UP, because it is stopped UP.
A store is opened UP in the morning, and also closed UP at night.
Are you mixed UP about UP yet??!!
To find out about the proper uses of UP, look it UP in the dictionary.
In a desk sized dictionary, it takes UP almost a quarter of the page, and can add UP to about 30 definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might want to try to build 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 uses.
When rain clouds are threatening, we say it is clouding UP, and when the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it makes the earth muddy and messes things UP, and of course when there is no rain for a while, things dry UP.
I could probably go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, as the time is UP,
so time to shut UP!!
But just one more thought,...
What is the first thing you do in the morning and last thing you do at night??
U-P !!
Many English words that are spelt the same can be said differently, so giving them a different meaning.
I guess this is why the English language can be very confusing to learn.
Take a look at the following.....
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full, that it had to refuse more refuse.
We polish the Polish furniture.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the top of the bass drum.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen, about how to row.
They were too close to the window to close it.
The buck does funny things, when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections, my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject
to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend.
I guess this is why the English language can be very confusing to learn.
Take a look at the following.....
The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full, that it had to refuse more refuse.
We polish the Polish furniture.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
A bass was painted on the top of the bass drum.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen, about how to row.
They were too close to the window to close it.
The buck does funny things, when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections, my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject
to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend.
Some other English Language oddities.
The eggplant has no egg.
A hambuger does not contain ham.
Pineapple contains neither pine nor apple.
Sweet meats are sweets, while sweetbreads, which are NOT sweet, are meat.
A Guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it a pig.
Boxing rings are square.
The plural of tooth is teeth, but the plural of booth is NOT beeth.
There is one goose, and two geese.
There is one moose, but NOT two meese.
There is one house, and two houses, but there is one mouse and two mice.
There is one index and two indices.
You can make amends, but you don't make one amend.
Teachers have taught, but preachers have NOT praught.
If a vegatarian eats vegatables, then humanitarians really should be canniballs!!
People recite at a play, then they play at a recital.
Noses run and feet smell. Surely that seems to be the wrong way round, but NO, they really do.
A slim chance and a fat chance are the same, BUT a wise man and a wise guy are opposites.
And finally for this section...
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible
The eggplant has no egg.
A hambuger does not contain ham.
Pineapple contains neither pine nor apple.
Sweet meats are sweets, while sweetbreads, which are NOT sweet, are meat.
A Guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it a pig.
Boxing rings are square.
The plural of tooth is teeth, but the plural of booth is NOT beeth.
There is one goose, and two geese.
There is one moose, but NOT two meese.
There is one house, and two houses, but there is one mouse and two mice.
There is one index and two indices.
You can make amends, but you don't make one amend.
Teachers have taught, but preachers have NOT praught.
If a vegatarian eats vegatables, then humanitarians really should be canniballs!!
People recite at a play, then they play at a recital.
Noses run and feet smell. Surely that seems to be the wrong way round, but NO, they really do.
A slim chance and a fat chance are the same, BUT a wise man and a wise guy are opposites.
And finally for this section...
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible
Read on......
A bicycle cannot stand up alone, as it is TWO-TIRED.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway!!)
Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.
A backward poet writes inverse.
A chicken crossing the road, is poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exocist, you get re-possessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll show you A-flat minor.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine, is now fully recovered.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France, would result in Linoleum Blown apart.
You feel stuck with your debt, if you can't budge it.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted....
Taint yours and taint mine!!
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
A short fortune teller who escaped from prison, was a small medium at large.
When you've seen one shopping centre, you've seen a mall.
Those who jump off a Paris bridge, are in Seine.
When an actress saw her first strand of grey hair, she thought she'd dye.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
Marathon runners with bad footwear, suffer the agony of defeat.
A bicycle cannot stand up alone, as it is TWO-TIRED.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway!!)
Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.
A backward poet writes inverse.
A chicken crossing the road, is poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exocist, you get re-possessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll show you A-flat minor.
When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine, is now fully recovered.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France, would result in Linoleum Blown apart.
You feel stuck with your debt, if you can't budge it.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted....
Taint yours and taint mine!!
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
A short fortune teller who escaped from prison, was a small medium at large.
When you've seen one shopping centre, you've seen a mall.
Those who jump off a Paris bridge, are in Seine.
When an actress saw her first strand of grey hair, she thought she'd dye.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
Marathon runners with bad footwear, suffer the agony of defeat.
Some Word Definitions!! ??
ADULT
A person who has stopped growing at both ends,
and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOUR
A place where women go to curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL
Someone who is fed up with people.
CHICKEN
A bird that you can eat before it is born,
and also after it is dead.
COMMITTEE
A body that keeps minutes,
and wastes hours.
DUST
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
HANDKERCHIEF
Cold storage.
INFLATION
Cutting money in half,
without damaging the paper.
MOSQUITO
An insect that makes you like flies better.
SECRET
Something you tell to one person at a time.
TOOTHACHE
The pain that drives you to extraction.
YAWN
An honest opinion openly expressed.
WRINKLES
Something other people have,
BUT, YOU have character lines!!
ADULT
A person who has stopped growing at both ends,
and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOUR
A place where women go to curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL
Someone who is fed up with people.
CHICKEN
A bird that you can eat before it is born,
and also after it is dead.
COMMITTEE
A body that keeps minutes,
and wastes hours.
DUST
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
HANDKERCHIEF
Cold storage.
INFLATION
Cutting money in half,
without damaging the paper.
MOSQUITO
An insect that makes you like flies better.
SECRET
Something you tell to one person at a time.
TOOTHACHE
The pain that drives you to extraction.
YAWN
An honest opinion openly expressed.
WRINKLES
Something other people have,
BUT, YOU have character lines!!
How about trying these little reading tests now.
Take your time, and read the following lines
ALOUD without making any mistakes.
This is this cat.
This is is cat.
This is how cat.
This is to cat.
This is keep cat.
This is an cat.
This is old cat.
This is person cat.
This is busy cat.
This is for cat.
This is forty cat.
This is seconds cat.
DONE THAT???!!
NOW....Go back and read the third word in each line,
from the top down.
O K??!!
Take your time, and read the following lines
ALOUD without making any mistakes.
This is this cat.
This is is cat.
This is how cat.
This is to cat.
This is keep cat.
This is an cat.
This is old cat.
This is person cat.
This is busy cat.
This is for cat.
This is forty cat.
This is seconds cat.
DONE THAT???!!
NOW....Go back and read the third word in each line,
from the top down.
O K??!!
And now for a bit of TYPOGLYCEMIA.
Now, what is that? I can hear you saying!
Have a look at the following paragraph.
It looks a bit weird, but you will probably surprise yourself,
and find that you CAN READ IT.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh??
Yaeh, and I awlyas thuohgt slpeling was ipmorantt.
How did you get on?
If you really(rlaely) couldn't (cdnuolt)
work(wrok) this(tihs) out,
email(eaiml) me for a translation(ttolarnsain)!!
Now, what is that? I can hear you saying!
Have a look at the following paragraph.
It looks a bit weird, but you will probably surprise yourself,
and find that you CAN READ IT.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd
waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid
deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh??
Yaeh, and I awlyas thuohgt slpeling was ipmorantt.
How did you get on?
If you really(rlaely) couldn't (cdnuolt)
work(wrok) this(tihs) out,
email(eaiml) me for a translation(ttolarnsain)!!