The strangest quirks of the English language

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  @wittay · 10 months ago

  Did you know you can't run through a campground? You can only ran, because it's past tents.

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• EN

  @EngAnon · 10 months ago

  My favorite word riddle/trivia:<br>Most English words, of course, become plural if you add an &apos;s&apos; to the end. What word not only changes from plural to singular by adding an &apos;s&apos;, but also changes gender?<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br>&quot;Princes&quot; becomes &quot;princess.&quot;

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• MR

  @MrBitflipper · 10 months ago

  The version of the &quot;plethora&quot; joke I heard takes place at a funeral. One guest turns to the widow and asks &quot;mind if I say a word?&quot;, to which she replies &quot;please do&quot;. He stands and says &quot;plethora&quot;, then sits down. The widow turns to him and says &quot;thank you, that means a lot&quot;.

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• LU

  @Luubelaar · 10 months ago

  My favourite play on words is this:<br>Geology rocks, but geography is where it&apos;s at.

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• AN

  @annawest3004 · 10 months ago

  If you shove a stack of paper across the table, it&apos;s still stationery.

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• CH

  @chrisreinert9981 · 10 months ago

  When I cleaned out my mother&apos;s house in Seattle I came across a mimiographed copy of an Iclandic to a Peuget Sound indian language dictionary (forget which tribe). She was interested in Indian language and used a tape recorder to record tribe members speaking in the late 50&apos;s.

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• DW

  @dw7704 · 10 months ago

  Ah, synonym toast, just like my grammar used to make

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• HO

  @honkoff99 · 9 months ago

  &quot;Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.&quot; &nbsp;- Groucho Marx (but probably a misattribution)

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• DE

  @der.Schtefan · 10 months ago

  It is &quot;Mirror mirror&quot; in the original Brother Grimm tale, in the German versions, and in the adaptations of the movie. So people remembering &quot;mirror mirror&quot; don&apos;t remember the 1937 version, but any remake after, or the text book versions of it.

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• AR

  @arethunessamsonsen6245 · 10 months ago

  &quot;Spellchecking is its own reword&quot;

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• AN

  @andrewvelonis5940 · 10 months ago

  People who don&apos;t know the difference between entomology and etymology bug me in ways for which I have no words.

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• MI

  @michaelanderson2166 · 7 months ago

  Froot of the Loom did have a cornucopia. It was in the 90’s. They ( FotL) are gaslighting us about it. You can find them in thrift stores.

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