35 People Who ‘Can’t Even’ The English Language

Wow had to read it a couple times

If the plural of goose is geese, should the plural of moose be meese?

Ho meowner

I will one up you. Every E in Mercedes is pronounced differently.

I didn't kill your dog. I DIDN'T kill your dog. I didn't KILL your dog. I didn't kill YOUR dog. I didn't kill your DOG.

English is considered one of the easier languages to learn - it gets much more complicated out there people

Try reading this out quickly..

Both are rarely heard outside America except from people who think Americanisms are trendy.

Welsh for potato :D

And I read it the other way around in the second comment.

I would like to see a firefall and a waterfly

English has more than five vowels but only five letters to display them.

I SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO READ THIS CORRECTLY AND UNDERSTAND IT

The pronunciation. I simply had to say it out loud.

when ask to use ones own words. I go; "emjuju wata wata majojo" because those are my own words.

There's a moose loose aboot this hoose.

Homonyms exist in every language.

Easy. As an English/American native speaker go for german words like "Streichholzschachtel".

Also, if a person from Poland is a Pole, then shouldn't a person from Holland be a Hole?

The "if" throws me. "You all would have" all contract in previously accepted ways. Same with "I would have". I have never seen "if" contracted into anything before. It would have been recognisable as Y'all'd've if I'd've. (Because I'd also like to point out that the apostrophe around I'd was in the wrong place)

You forgot about Red so sorry!

I'm so glad "bae" hasn't stuck. Absolutely hated it.

"Sean" is Irish and the others are English versions.

Pony Bologna only rhymes if you pronounce Bologna incorrectly

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You can take a s**t and not give a s**t....

I don't know about anyone else, bt seeing "nineth" makes me want to say it as nin-eth with two syllables. Maybe that is why ninth eventually beat nineth, for a time both versions were correct.

Burn baby burn!

Huh...TIL that intimate was also a verb. Thank you random sentences.

Kowtow is technically not an English word, its an anglicized version of a Chinese words.

Because a mussel basically is only muscle.

Trying to teach my daughter to read and write is hard. She has to sound out her words when reading. But the sounds the words make are not the same as spelling them on paper. 🙃

Different words developing the same spelling over time. Bass (base) is from Mediaeval Latin, bass (fish) is from a Germanic root.

Because Americans use Z for S, where the English use S for S

Arkansas and Kansas didnt come from English. Arkansas is a French corruption of the pronunciation of a Quapaw word meaning "The Down River People" Kansas is named after the Kansa people. Almost all of the states names came from native words, or French or Spanish corruptions of those native words.

Because it relates to gratitude, not greatitude? (Very much a guess, I haven't had a brew yet)

Well damn it I said i paid!

That's to distinguish the bomb before from the boom afterwards.