Do You think English is Easy ?

Us E-S-L folks will love this one.

Do You Think English is Easy???

Can you read these right the first time?

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used 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 get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) 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.
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 about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it
14) The buck does funny things when the 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.
1 Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20 : How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. ?

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this: There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic comeUP? Why
do we speak UP and why are the officersUP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lockUP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And thisUP is confusing: A drain must be openedUP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning but we close itUP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP aboutUP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........... Time to shut UP....!

Oh...one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night? U-P.

Yea, it can be very confusing, even for those who's English is their first language, but what has always confused me is when a building/house has been destroyed by fire they say 'it's been raised to the ground':smt017

I did fine on most but stumbled over:
3, 6, 16, 18 and 20

LOL English is bananas! I love it!

Sorry to be a kill-joy, but it's actually "razed to the ground"...

and why is abbreviation such a long word :smt017

Uh-oh well that makes more sense, trust me to embarrass myself


what about dyslexicia, why is that so hard to spell

Did you hear about the dyslexic devil-worshipper? He sold his soul to Santa...

...groan

LMAO! That's funny

And just for arguments sake, of all the languages I've larned (quite a few...) English is actually the easiest. Other then these rather confusing sentences lol!

or the one about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac?

He stayed up all night pondering the existence of Dog

............and why isn't phonetic spelt as it sounds