{"id":4091,"date":"2015-03-01T12:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2015-03-01T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T10:05:07","slug":"our-crazy-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=4091","title":{"rendered":"Our Crazy Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Did you know that &#8220;verb&#8221; is a noun?<\/li>\n<li>How can you look up words in a dictionary if you can&#8217;t spell them?<\/li>\n<li>If a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know?<\/li>\n<li>If two mouses are mice and two louses are lice, why aren&#8217;t two houses hice?<\/li>\n<li>If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?<\/li>\n<li>If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve read a book, you can reread it. But wouldn&#8217;t this also mean that you would have to &#8220;member&#8221; somebody in order to remember them?<\/li>\n<li>In Chinese, why are the words for crisis and opportunity the same?<\/li>\n<li>Is it a coincidence that the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable?<\/li>\n<li>Is there another word for a synonym?<\/li>\n<li>Shouldn&#8217;t there be a shorter word for &#8220;monosyllabic&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>What is another word for &#8220;thesaurus&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Where do swear words come from?<\/li>\n<li>Why can&#8217;t you make another word using all the letters in &#8220;anagram&#8221;?\n<li>Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?<\/li>\n<li>Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?<\/li>\n<li>Why do people use the word &#8220;irregardless&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Why do some people type &#8220;cool&#8221; as &#8220;kewl?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we say something&#8217;s out of order when its broken but we never say in of order when it works?<\/li>\n<li>Why does &#8220;cleave&#8221; mean both split apart and stick together?<\/li>\n<li>Why does &#8220;slow down&#8221; and &#8220;slow up&#8221; mean the same thing?<\/li>\n<li>Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing?<\/li>\n<li>Why does the Chinese ideogram for trouble symbolize two women living under one roof?<\/li>\n<li>Why does X stand for a kiss and O stand for a hug?<\/li>\n<li>Why doesn&#8217;t &#8220;onomatopoeia&#8221; sound like what it is?<\/li>\n<li>Why don&#8217;t we say &#8220;why&#8221; instead of &#8220;how come&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Why is &#8220;crazy man&#8221; an insult, while to insert a comma and say &#8220;Crazy, man!&#8221; is a compliment?<\/li>\n<li>Why are a wise man and wise guy opposites?<\/li>\n<li>Why is abbreviation such a long word?<\/li>\n<li>Why is dyslexic so hard to spell?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that no word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that the word &#8220;gullible&#8221; isn&#8217;t in the dictionary?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that we recite at a play and play at a recital?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that writers write but fingers don&#8217;t fing, grocers don&#8217;t groce and hammers don&#8217;t ham?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the plural of goose-geese, and not the plural of moose-meese?<\/li>\n<li>Why isn&#8217;t &#8220;palindrome&#8221; spelled the same way backwards?<\/li>\n<li>Why isn&#8217;t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that &#8220;verb&#8221; is a noun? How can you look up words in a dictionary if you can&#8217;t spell them? If a word is misspelled in a dictionary, how would we ever know? If two mouses are mice and two louses are lice, why aren&#8217;t two houses hice? 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