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67 Hilarious Reasons Why The English Language Is The Worst
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The English language is a mystery to all of us, whether you've been speaking it since day one, or you've just started to learn it. From its bizarre spelling rules to its free-for-all grammar, it's a daily struggle just trying to form sentences that make sense. No wonder people are turning to emoji to express their thoughts, rather than coping with some weird English words.
Unless you live in the Tibetan mountains or belong to an Amazonian tribe, you've definitely come across English grammar in use. It's the most widely-studied language in the world, making it a connecting word between countries, and even continents. Thanks to the rise of American power and influence, English has spread like wildfire across the globe through movies, music, and literature. That doesn't mean it's any walk in the park.
Have a look at some of the most frustrating moments English grammar has brought us below; you don't have to search a long way for funny jokes, as they're all there, in the common usage of English. And don't forget to check out our similar posts on French and German, they might be even better than these funny jokes in English.
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I have never known "peruse" to mean anything other than "read very carefully".
Sometimes we spell it "baloney" - And baloney and money don't rhyme either (sigh)
Queue is a queue where Q is the first and the others are waiting in queue for their chance to appear.
Well, sometimes one has to wonder that if we got for a lingua franca, why we not take something with less irregularities. Although I am afraid that most "grown" languages are full of irregularities (even though most probably not as bably as German – where at least the spelling typically is easy).
I'm learning english as my third language and this just messed me up so bad
Imagine having to write 'potato' in a spelling test and you had 5 seconds to write that hideous thing
I know it works GREAT with "spring ahead and fall back" - in reference to Daylight savings time reminders as to which way to set the clocks (forward or backward)
Eggplants were called that because the variety first introduced to the Europeans looked like an egg (you can see them if you look it up, they're white), pineapple was called that because it looks like a pine cone and "apple" was a generic word for "fruit", hamburger is from the "Hamburg steak" which is a kind of ground beef dish. Here are theories about the "guinea pig": http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2009/12/how-did-the-guinea-pig-get-its-name.html
I was half asleep in my own bathroom once and wondered why I had a bottle of Polish remover...
I only have this problem with "let's". "Let us" sounds completely different.
"All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life."
Rickrollé in French, which is the basic way in French to appropriate an English word
No, I do believe that is indeed a sweet potato and not the root that should technically be called a "yam". Also, I did the same thing as the first person.
I could be wrong but here's why I think it makes sense. January is a month, a month is a time period that contains somethings (weeks and days) so for anything that contains anything, we say it's in it. "Oh the dinner is in the fridge" For Wednesday it's a day, and many times people ask when something is happening or "when is it on?" and so you say it's "on Wednesday". The same goes for time except you say "on at" because the use of "at" when it comes to clock time is due to the use of the clock. At is used to describe where the clock hand is at.
Nooo. I say It is what it is all the time. This one messed with me worse than all the others combined.
Darth Vader's "be careful not to choke on your aspirations" is a double pun if you look up the meanings