Sitting in my swivel chair with hotwater bag and surfing the net - tweeting, reading online news and at google library - all have become a kind of weekend ritual for me.
Have anyone of you looked through Google Books (http://books.google.com/)? It's not that great collection of books but some are worth reading when you have time and mood. I am reading some at the moment. In the Humor category, there is this book on "Crazy English" by Richard Lederer.
English is the most widely spoken language; 50% of the world's books are written in English; 70% of mails are written in English; over 80% of computer texts, including all websites are stored in English; and, English has acquired the largest vocabulary than any other languages, perhaps as many as two million words. Yet, English language is crazy - the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues. That's what the book says. It gives a hilarious account of English language as it is.
Some examples: Why your nose runs and your feet smell? Why do we call it newsprint when it contains no printing but when we put print on it, we call it a newspaper? If they wrote a letter, perhaps they also bote their tongue. If we conceive a conception and receive a reception, why can we grieve a greption and believe a beleption? Why is it called a TV set when we get only one? If pro and con are opposites, is congress the opposite of progress? If the plural of tooth is teeth, should not the plural of booth be beeth?
My trial on blog seems to be working, Wow! Friends, till another one, Chao!
Have anyone of you looked through Google Books (http://books.google.com/)? It's not that great collection of books but some are worth reading when you have time and mood. I am reading some at the moment. In the Humor category, there is this book on "Crazy English" by Richard Lederer.
English is the most widely spoken language; 50% of the world's books are written in English; 70% of mails are written in English; over 80% of computer texts, including all websites are stored in English; and, English has acquired the largest vocabulary than any other languages, perhaps as many as two million words. Yet, English language is crazy - the most loopy and wiggy of all tongues. That's what the book says. It gives a hilarious account of English language as it is.
Some examples: Why your nose runs and your feet smell? Why do we call it newsprint when it contains no printing but when we put print on it, we call it a newspaper? If they wrote a letter, perhaps they also bote their tongue. If we conceive a conception and receive a reception, why can we grieve a greption and believe a beleption? Why is it called a TV set when we get only one? If pro and con are opposites, is congress the opposite of progress? If the plural of tooth is teeth, should not the plural of booth be beeth?
My trial on blog seems to be working, Wow! Friends, till another one, Chao!
English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway :-)
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