k3n

My language teachers at school always told me to be glad I was born English as it's one of the hardest languages to learn! My DH is Dutch and speaks excellent English. Often he'll ask me why things are the way they are with English grammar or spelling, like for example 'through' and 'rough' - you only add a 'th' but the pronunciation changes completely! I tell him, 'I don't know, it's just to p@#s off foreignors, I guess!' :lol:

watterstide

I loved English class in school!

Homonyms were fun! I had the best english teacher, i hated all the work she made us do, but now, i could just kiss her!
Because we are the melting pot,ourlanguage comes from all over the world.

sandpat

That is so true...then throw in all the different regional dialects/slang...I don't know how anybody can learn this language...heck, I was born here and I have trouble! :lol: :lol:

redkimba

LOL - I also told her that I knew people who were born here. They didn't speak no good English either.

Lisa_wanna_b_quilter

My Japense friend always complains about English spelling. Why can the same letter make more than one sound or no sound at all? In Japanese every character has one sound. Period. If you see that character, it will always make the same sound. Wouldn't that make everyone's life easier?

Quilter7x

Most definitely Lisa. I think Spanish is similar in that all letters but H are pronounced and only one way. I'm glad to already know the English language because it is a very hard one to learn!

Karenmay

English is supposed to be the hardest language in the world to learn.....I cant understand why....I never had any trouble! lol!

Karen xx

sewgull

If a character made the same sound each time life would be boring. America is the melting pot of many cultures. That is what makes us the all tic. I would not trade America for anyh other place in this world.

Teach you friend to sew and enjoy life.

JoanneS

Haven't you noticed that most of us haven't? Especially TV ads that are teaching our children to speak and spell incorrectly!

Beth33

We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

The one fowl is a goose but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a whole set of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why should not the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural wouldn't be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say Mother, we never say Methren,

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim,

So English, I fancy you will all agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see.