Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2017

English: A Wonder in Itself

English is the only worldwide spoken language. More than half of the world’s books and three quarters of international mails are in English. Most works of literature are written and translated in English. However, it is the truth that English is an amazing language because words and phrases in English are unusually made. There is neither pine nor apple in pineapple. The word egg-apple says nothing about egg, which means brinjal. In the case of hamburger, there is no ham. Sweetmeats are not kind of meat, it is a kind of candy and sweetbreads are not a kind of bread and it is meat. Boning rings are not round like a ring rather they are square. Guinea pig is not a kind of pig it is a person or animal used in an experiment. A writer writes but a finger not fings, a grocer not groces and hammers not ham. In the case of forming plural, plural of mouse is mice; louse is lice, what is the plural of house? Is it hice? It’s not. Plural of tooth is teeth, foot is feet, goose is gees...