by Prisca 5 Replies latest social humour
WHY?...
Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who
drives a race car is not called a racist?
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety-one?
If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?
Those are good Prisca! They shoud call the merger between Fed Ex and UPS, FEX-UP-which is what they do to most of my shipments.
why do you park on a driveway but drive on a parkway
If you are not feeling well, you say that you are feeling under the weather. When you feel good, does that mean you are feeling over the weather, or are you feeling right with the weather?
If you feel "beside yourself with joy", are you back inside yourself when you are not joyful?
Is cuth the opposite of uncuth?
Why do flammible and inflammible mean the same thing?
larc (of the perplexed class)
If bough is pronounced bow, why isn't cough pronounced cow?
ghoti is pronounced "fish" The gh from enough, the o from women, and the ti from motion. Fish.
why isn't scissor pronounced skisser. And muscle, muskul?
And Prisca? Is that pronounced Prissa? Or Priss-ka?
Francoise of the Grammarian Class
If a fiddle and a violin are the same, and if you can "fiddle around", why can't you "violin around" (more formally)?
If someone who is very upset is "disgruntled", then if you're happy are you "gruntled"?
Grunt, grunt.
Gopher
