Tuesday 6 August 2013

English Language

English Language is funny – a ‘fat chance’ and a ‘slim chance’ are 
the same thing.”

we do have noses that run and feet that smell ...
 we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the 
parkway





The only months of the year that have anagrams are: MARCH and MAY

Anagram for: March ----------> Charm
Anagram for: May ----------> Yam

Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram

Anagram for: Monday ----------> Dynamo

The only planets that have anagrams are Earth and Mars
Anagrams for: Earth ----------> Heart, Hater
Anagrams for: Mars ----------> Arms, Rams

Are is a one syllable word that can be made into a three syllable word by adding just one letter to make area. Similarly, came can become cameogape can become agape, and lien can become alien. Adding a letter to the middle of smile becomes the three syllable word simile. Similarly, whine can become wahine.

Wahine:  a Polynesian woman, a female surfer

MAINE is the only name of a state of the United States consisting of only one syllable.

SMILES is supposed to be the longest word in the dictionary because “there's a mile between the two S's.”

The two silent letters in CORPS are pronounced when a silent E is added to form CORPSE

DREAMT  is the only common word in English ending in -MT.
Others are the obscure adreamt, redreamt, undreamt, or daydreamt.

"EWE", "YEW", "YOU" can be confused

EWE and YOU are pronounced exactly the same, yet share no letters in common.

1
YEW
any of several evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs of the genera Taxus  and Torreya,  constituting the family Taxaceae, of the Old World, North America, and Japan, having needlelike or scalelike foliage and seeds enclosed in a fleshy aril.

YEW unstressed

2
EWE is a female sheep, especially when fully mature

3
EWE
a member of a people of Togo and Ghana, in western Africa.

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