English Words With Quirky Logic
- There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger.
Guinea Pig baby. About 8 hours old. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
- Have you noticed that there is neither apple nor pine in pineapple?
- English muffins weren’t invented in England.
- French fries do not originate in France.
- A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
- There are no hogs in Hogmanay.
- Why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham?
- You cannot buy boots in Boots. You cannot buy threshers in Threshers. The Superdrug chain is a big disappointment.
- Quicksand only works slowly
- If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth?
- If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught?
- If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
- Sweetmeats are sweets while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
The Laughing Housewife 
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? hahaha, us!!!!
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😀
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I didn’t know the last one. ^|^
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Great one, Linda …. vegetarian one … my favorite. Have a good weekend now.
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And you!
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The ” boots” one got us until we remembered that we bought some medication for mosquito bites at a shop called Boots… I googled it and found it was a chemist chain… 🙂
We call pineapples “ananas” and they were named becuase they looked a bit like a pinecone… but where the “apple” bit came from, I have no clue…..
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Excellent: giggles all round.
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Love them.
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If olive oil is made from olives, and corn oil is made from corn, what is baby oil made from??
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Shriek!
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Why indeed?
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Hey, you used the words English and logic in conjunction! Bwahahahahaha!
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See those English wans, they are a law unto themselves!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love English Muffins. Trader Joe’s sells “British Muffins”.
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How peculiar!
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A lot of very cute ones in this group.
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