Some people complained that English is such a difficult language. It is difficult to learn a language when some “patterns” in the language are inconsistent, for examples the spelling patterns, verb patterns, and grammar rules that are “inconsistent” as shown in the following.
Why in English…..?
why look becomes looked in past tense, take become took but but go cannot be goed and eat cannot be eated
a box is ok, and its plural is boxes; yet ox cannot be oxes, but oxen
a fowl is a goose and two are called geese, yet the plural of moose can never be meese.
a mouse will become mice when they are many, yet a house cannot be hice
the plural of man is men, but the plural pan is not pen
we talk about our foot but we show our feet; when we take a boot we cannot call a pair of beet.
one tooth, two teeth, but can’t one booth be two beeth?
we use that to refer to one boy and those to refer to four boys but why can’t hat become hose? yet, why cat can become cats, not cose?
we say brother and brethren but we can’t say mother and methren
for male pronoun, we use he, him, and his, yet for female why we use she but not shim and shis.
Why teachers taught but preachers cannot praught?
Isn’t English a weird language?
It is even more difficult to learn the English language when idioms in English are “foreign” to second/foreign language learners.
Is there an egg in eggplant, or ham in hamburger or pine in pineaple?
Was English muffin invented in England? No!
Why boxing rings are square?
Why is a guinea pig not from Guinea and why is it not a pig?
Why writers write, but fingers don’t fing, hammers don’t ham, and grocers don’t groce?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, humanitarian eats what?
We have noses that run but feet that smell.
Why a slim chance is ok but not a fat chance ?
You fill in a form by filling it out
An alarm goes off by goin on.
If Father is a Pop, why Mother cannot be a Mop?
cerdit to: Dr Supyan Hussin,UKM
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