Whizz Kids - Meditații cu drag

Humour that bites 😀

Do you know what tongue-twisters are?

Frământări de limbă - jocuri fonetice alcătuite din expresii, propoziții sau fraze greu de pronunțat.

Give it a go and see how you do!

Let’s face it – English is a crazy language
There is no egg in eggplant, no 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; one moose - 2 meese?
Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? And if you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? (to be continued)
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27 octombrie, Ziua pisicilor negre!!