English is a funny language. Below are some proof for the fact!!
- The bandage was wound around the wound.
- The farm was used to produce produce.
- The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
- We must polish the Polish furniture.
- He could lead if he would get the lead out.
- The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
- Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
- A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
- When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
- I did not object to the object.
- The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
- There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row…
- They were too close to the door to close it.
- The buck does funny things when the does are present.
- A seamstress and a sewer fell down a sewer line.
- To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
- The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
- Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
- I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
- How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
- There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
- English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France.
- We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. Right???
- Writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?
- If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth?
- One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
- Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
- If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
