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Learning English is Fun

The insurance is invalid for the invalid.

The bandage was wound around the wound!

How do I intimate it to my most intimate friend?

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

I shed my clothes in the shed.

But upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

Have you ever thought :

Why Boxing Rings are Square?

Why sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat?

Why you fill in a form by filling it out?

Why Bakers bake, but grocers don't groce?

Why a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig?

We drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Why do people have noses that run and feet that smell?

We ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

If two mouse are called mice, what should two house be called?

And finally, when you want to shut down your computer you have to hit "START"!!


English is a great language and we have no intention to make fun of it, or of any other language.  These are just some witty instances of the complexity of the English Language. These have been picked from various sources, and day to day instances.  We would appreciate more such contributions from our reader friends.

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