The Craziness of the English Language

[KosmicKat]

Beefburger is a term worth hating
Both fraudulent and frust(er)ating
Implying with shoddy flim and flam
That hamburgers are made of ham.
(Ogden Nash)

[Eelco]

There was a dutch poet who was also an english teacher who combined both langueges in poems..

For instance.....
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There once was a young man called Peter,
Who sprinkled his bed with a geeter.
His father got woest
took hold of a knoest
and gave him a pack on his meter.
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A Geeter or Gieter is a watering can.
Woest is enraged
Knoest litteraly is knob, but here used as a piece of wood with knobs..
An a pack on his meter would translate to being on the recieving end of a spanking in the parent/child relation

with love
Eelco

[lovelypeace]

Yeah - You have one foot, but two feet; two mice, but only one mouse.

It's kind of fun living close to the border because the Canadians have hybrid of British English and American English and that throws you off if you aren't expecting it.

[BabaRa]

Here is George Carlin's take on politicians and words. Begins around 11:00

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx21zEdhlPQ