1. The bandage is to wound around the wound.
2. The farm use to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would let the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his desert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time, like the present, he thought it was time to present.
8. A base was painted on the head of bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I didn’t object to the object.
11. I had to subject the subjects to a series at test.
12. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
13. How can I intimate this thing to my intimate friend?
14. They were too close to the door to close it.
15. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
16. A seamstress and sewer fell down into a sewer line.
17. To help with planting, the farmer thought his sow to sow.
18. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
19. After a number of injections my jay got number.
20. Upon seeing the tear in painting, I shed a tear.
Let’s face it. English is a crazy language. There is no egg in egg plant or harm in harm burger. Neither apple nor pine is in the pine apple. English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweet meats are candies without meat while sweet bread is not really sweet. We take English for granted. But, if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quick sand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor it is a pig. And why is it that writer write but finger don’t fig, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t harm? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why is not the plural of booth is beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? One index, two indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can amends but not one amends? If the teacher taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables what does humanitarian eat? Sometime I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recite at? Ship by trunk and send cargo by ship? Have nose that run and foes that smell? How can a slim chance and fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposite?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of language in which your house can burn as it burns down in which you fill in form for filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not by computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which of course isn’t the race at all). That is why; when stars are out they are visible. But, when the lights are out they are invisible.
2. The farm use to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would let the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his desert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time, like the present, he thought it was time to present.
8. A base was painted on the head of bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I didn’t object to the object.
11. I had to subject the subjects to a series at test.
12. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
13. How can I intimate this thing to my intimate friend?
14. They were too close to the door to close it.
15. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
16. A seamstress and sewer fell down into a sewer line.
17. To help with planting, the farmer thought his sow to sow.
18. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
19. After a number of injections my jay got number.
20. Upon seeing the tear in painting, I shed a tear.
Let’s face it. English is a crazy language. There is no egg in egg plant or harm in harm burger. Neither apple nor pine is in the pine apple. English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweet meats are candies without meat while sweet bread is not really sweet. We take English for granted. But, if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quick sand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor it is a pig. And why is it that writer write but finger don’t fig, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t harm? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why is not the plural of booth is beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? One index, two indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can amends but not one amends? If the teacher taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables what does humanitarian eat? Sometime I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recite at? Ship by trunk and send cargo by ship? Have nose that run and foes that smell? How can a slim chance and fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposite?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of language in which your house can burn as it burns down in which you fill in form for filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not by computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which of course isn’t the race at all). That is why; when stars are out they are visible. But, when the lights are out they are invisible.
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