その他(Misc)

There's no egg in eggplant, no ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple, English muffins weren’t invented in England, nor do French fries come from France. Sweetmeats are candies, sweetbreads aren‘t sweet nor meat. Quicksand works slowly, boxing rings are square, and guinea pigs are neither from Guinea nor pigs.

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, two geese. One moose, two meese? One index, two indices? You can make amends but not an amend? If you get rid of all your odds and ends save one, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? People recite at plays and play at recitals, ship by car and send cargo by ship, and have noses that run but 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? Your house can burn up as it burns down, you fill in a form by filling it out, and alarms go off by going on. When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

4. 笑い話

  A.  Are you free?
    B    Not free, but cheap.

3. My father is my mother. の訳は?

5. 英語の回文

   (1) Madam, I'm Adam.      奥さん、私はアダムです。

       (2) "Nurses run ! " says sick Cissy as nurses run.  看護婦たちが走っている時に、病気のシシーは

           「看護婦たちが走ってる!」と言いました。

6. Time flies.

    日本人が Time flies like an arrow. と言うと、 ネイティブはそれならFruit flies like a banana. だろうと言うそうである。

  (遠山顕氏のブログより。  本来、like an arrow は付けないようである。 fruit fliesとは「ミバエ」のこと。) 

He told me that that "that" that that boy said at that time is that "that".

彼は、あの少年があのときに言ったあの"that"は、あの"that"であると言った。
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2. that

1. English is a crazy language.

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