Saturday, April 25, 2020

Quick List Appreciates English Language Struggles


Word nerds will love this. Everyone else might have some mixed feelings about the strange complexities of the English language. 

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Text - If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. crimsun Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard. Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword a

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Text - English Game: place the word "only" anywhere on the sentence She told him that she loved him. parkourtoyoutoo: shadowwraiths: Ladies and Gentlemen, The English Language... What are you doing? STOP. THIS IS NOT FAIR.

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Text - WHY ENGLISH IS HARD TO LEARN We'll begin with box; the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose is never called meese. You may find a lone mouse or a house full of mice; But the plural of house is houses, not hice. The plural of man is always men, But the plural of pan is never pen. If I speak of a foot, and you show me two feet, And I give you a book, would a pair be a beek? If one is a tooth and a who

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Text - English a funny language An oxymoron is usually defined as a phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are brought together: 1) Clearly misunderstood 2) Exact Estimate 3) Small Crowd 4) Act Naturally 5) Found Missing 6) Fully Empty 7) Pretty ugly 8) Seriously funny 9) Only choice 10) Original copies And the Mother of al. 11) Happily Married

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Text - The ten Pronunciations of -ough. I thought it would be rough to plough through the slough, though it was falling into the lough that left me thoroughly coughing and hiccoughing.

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