Why English is tough

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Jade_Butterfly
Jade_Butterfly Posts: 2,963 Member
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Twenty-one reasons why English is hard to learn.

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.

2. The farm was used to produce produce.

3. The dump was so full it had to refuse more refuse.

4. We must polish the Polish furniture.

5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7. Since there was no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10. I did not object to the object.

11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12. There was a row among the oarsmen on how to row.

13. They were too close to the door to close it.

14. The buck does funny things when does are present.

15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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  • SergeantSunshine_reused
    SergeantSunshine_reused Posts: 5,382 Member
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    Ahh Ill admit I had to read a few of them more than once to get it to sound right lol
  • bethgarzonie
    bethgarzonie Posts: 40
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    Awesome!
  • JustEllieK
    JustEllieK Posts: 423 Member
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    Hahaha i love this!
  • Bridge_CG
    Bridge_CG Posts: 435 Member
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    I love this so much! Their, there and they're! Hahaha
  • 21karensmith
    21karensmith Posts: 50 Member
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    AWESOME!
  • SkateboardFi
    SkateboardFi Posts: 1,322 Member
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    LOL this is pretty cool..didn't even think about most of these
  • DawnOBRN
    DawnOBRN Posts: 290 Member
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    I never really noticed how f'd up English is until I started teaching my son how to read and write. I have a whole new love for teachers! :love:
  • Jade_Butterfly
    Jade_Butterfly Posts: 2,963 Member
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    Ahh Ill admit I had to read a few of them more than once to get it to sound right lol

    Seriously. .it was like oh crap double take!
  • rosemiller11
    rosemiller11 Posts: 224 Member
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    bump
  • catshark209
    catshark209 Posts: 1,133 Member
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    I had to read them out loud!
    I learned English when I was 6-7, and still tend to "lose" my English when I'm nervous etc.
  • ChristineMarie89
    ChristineMarie89 Posts: 1,142 Member
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    lol nice
  • scarletleavy
    scarletleavy Posts: 841 Member
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    Seriously, English makes no sense.
  • nosugarcoating
    nosugarcoating Posts: 194 Member
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    I love English. :D
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
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    I teach EAL and other foreign languages and have some of these up outside my classroom to show the English kids how hard their own language is :wink:
  • pixardad
    pixardad Posts: 184 Member
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    If I may augment/alter #20:

    "I had to subject the subject to correct the sentence subject."
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
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    You forgot the MFP classic: "You lose weight to get loose clothes" :wink:
  • BrewerGeorge
    BrewerGeorge Posts: 397 Member
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    Clever. I find it interesting how you automatically change pronunciation based on context. I didn't notice it until it failed me on 'number.'
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 Member
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    When I used to teach English, this was my favourite:

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    I take it you already know
    Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
    Others may stumble, but not you,
    On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
    Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
    To learn of less familiar traps?

    Beware of heard, a dreadful word
    That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
    And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
    For goodness sake don't call it deed!

    Watch out for meat and great and threat
    (They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
    A moth is not a moth in mother,
    Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
    And here is not a match for there
    Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,

    And then there's dose and rose and lose -
    Just look them up - and goose and choose,
    And cork and work and card and ward,
    And font and front and word and sword,
    And do and go and thwart and cart -
    Come, come, I've hardly made a start!

    A dreadful language? Man alive!
    I'd mastered it when I was five!
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
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    Honestly I just learned to improve my English writing a few years ago but until now I still can't speak it without twisting my tongue. I always fall asleep during our English class before. :yawn:
  • 99Tinkerbell
    99Tinkerbell Posts: 384
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    Wow

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