[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ HOMOGRAPHS

Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning.  A homograph that is also pronounced differently is a heteronym.              You think English is easy??    I think a retired English teacher was bored...THIS IS GREAT!     Read all the way to the end.................  This took a lot of work to put together!          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.     8) 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.  18) 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. 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 . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.   And why is it that 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?  If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?    How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.   English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.  PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick'?  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 come UP  ?  Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP 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 lock UP  the house and some guys fix UP the old car.      At other times the little word has 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 .   A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP .  We open  UP a store in the morning but we close it UP  at night.  No wonder immigrants have such a big problem  learning the confusing English Language.

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