Enjoy the pun and fun of the English language

English can be a funny language at times. Here’s why!

Things English Does to Pull Your Leg

• INAPPROPRIATE – NOT APPROPRIATE
• INVALUABLE – VERY VALUABLE
• INCONCEIVABLE – NOT CONCEIVABLE
• INFLAMMABLE – VERY FLAMMABLE

What’s the difference between a kleptomaniac and a literalist?

The literalist takes things literally.

The kleptomaniac takes things, literally.

Here’s why Empty is the most interesting word in English.

If you remove the first letter, the pronunciation doesn’t change. Remove the last letter as well and it’s still the same. Even if you remove the first, third and last letter it stays the same. Remove everything and it’s still empty

Enjoy the pun and fun of the English language

When you are bored think about a few things like the following, that don’t make sense …like,

1. If poison expires, does it become more poisonous or it is no longer poisonous?

2. Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” S or C?

3. Do twins ever realise that one of them is unplanned?

4. Why is the letter W, called double U? Shouldn’t it be called double V?

5. Maybe oxygen is slowly killing us and It takes 75-100 years to work fully.

6. Every time you clean something, you make something else dirty.

7. The word “swims” even when it’s upside-down.

8. 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.

9. If you replace “W” with “T” in “What, Where and When”, you get the answer to each.

Four confusing things still unresolved!

1. At a movie theatre, which armrest is yours?

2. If people evolved from monkeys, why are monkeys still around?

3. Why is there a ‘D’ in fridge, but not in refrigerator?

DAD, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT A SOLAR ECLIPSE IS?
NO SON.

4. Who knew what time it was when the first clock was made?

We’ll never know!!!

So just enjoy the pun and fun of the English language

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