heard before, you can comfort yourself that there may well be a native speaker somewhere who doesn't know it either.
2. English: a Crazy Language
I read an article, not long ago, in the Reader's Digest. I had a good laugh over it and so, apparently, did my friends in the United States because some of them took the time to mail me copies of it. I wonder r if you will find it as funny as I did. Or if it will just be a painful reminder of your years of studying this wildly unpredictable language called English.
The author, Richard Lederer, tells you what you probably already know: that English is the most widely used language in the history of this planet; that ten out of every seven people can speak it; that more than 50% of the world's books end 75% of international mail are in English; and hat English has the largest vocabulary of all languages, perhaps as many as two million words.
In spite of its popularity and wide usage, English is a craze language! Let's look at a few humorous examples. There is no egg in eggplant, there is neither pine nor apple in pineapple, and there is no ham in hamburger, which is actually ground beef. French fries weren't invented in France but rather in Belgium. Sweetmeats are a kind of candy, not a meat. Boxing rings are square in shape, not round or ring-shaped; in public bathrooms, such as in restaurants or airports, you can't take a bath, but at home you can take a bath in your bathroom; and a guinea pit is neither a pit nor is it from Guinea, which is a West African republic. In reality, a guinea pig is a rat-like animal without a tail, and it is often kept as a pet or used in scientific experiments.
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