Jose Carillo's English Forum
General Category => Language Humor at its Finest => Topic started by: Joe Carillo on November 16, 2014, 11:46:48 AM
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40 English words that don’t seem to be in perfect order
Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
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How come the word abbreviation is so long?
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Wouldn’t the opposite of abbreviate be breviate?
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What’s another word for thesaurus?
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Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to call a dictionary a definitionary?
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Would anyone ever look up the word dictionary in the dictionary?
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Is there something spellbinding about dictionaries?
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Why is it that definitions are seldom definitive?
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How come there is no verb form of the word verb?
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Since pronoun is a noun, why isn’t proverb a verb?
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Can you recite a list of nouns verbatim?
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Do verbose people ever use nouns?
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Would “buy” and “try” be good adverbs?
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Does this sentence need reverberation?
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Doesn’t the word syntax sound rather more political than scholarly?
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How come there is no anagram for anagram?
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Why doesn’t the word umlaut have one?
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Wouldn’t analogy be a good synonym for proctology?
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Why didn’t they call a palindrome something like a palinilap or emordrome?
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Does onomatopoeia sound anything like it means?
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Wouldn’t you say most novels are not?
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What’s the word for when you can’t think of the word?
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Why isn’t lisp pronounced lithp?
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Why is number abbreviated as “no” when there is no “o”?
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Why is phraseology only one word?
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Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for monosyllabic?
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What is the opposite of opposite?
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Who coined the phrase “coined the phrase”?
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Why isn’t acronym an acronym of something?
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Isn’t dyslexic really spelled cixelsyd?
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Is slang short for “sloppy language”?
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Why do they call the thing at the end of sentence a period instead of a dot?
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Can you subtract something from a summary?
—From James Wegryn’s “A Barrelful of Words” (http://www.jimwegryn.com/Words/Language.htm)