peta..[peter]...just deliverd the pitzza
peter fell in the pit..[pat patted him down]

im hearing the pitter patter of little feet
the natter of the eng/lash lan-guage just cant be beet

im just not feeling it
the real has really left me realing
i think i will just be content to throw out the reel
reel in the real fish...now thats funny...look at one under
such a clumsy bunny...pat come and see the patsee

so many things happen..like the ship birthing
or handing over your pass port sport...as you pass through the port

pass the port pat
you spilled your port on my pass/port
you left your thought behind..in my mind..

but dear..a hind is a female deer dear..
its your behind thats on my mind

pass the port sport
dont de-port yourself shoddily
just stand in the dock and give your testi-money
you swore to tell the truth ruth..but what act of f/act can reveal the truth

i know the facts are frail
left is right...but we only got the right left

Dear OUG,

Very well done. Thank You.

A few more - there's no ham in hamburger. Nor any apples or pine in
pineapple. English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. There's no egg in eggplant. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads aren't sweet and are meat. If teachers taught why don't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

The guinea pig becomes even more absurd when you see it in Germany, where it is a Meerschweinchen - quite literally, a 'little pig from the sea'. I can guess where that came from, but it is somewhat lost in translation!

As for English, well, it's a curious beast, isn't it? It has come a long way from this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooj25_j3k1E (Beowulf in its original tongue). Bill Bryson's book "Mother Tongue" offers an entertaining commentary on the history and diversity of our language. I particularly enjoy the chapter on swearing ... I guess I have some growing up to do! It does, however, need to be taken with a grain of salt, as most of Bryson's work does. He occasionally fails to let the truth get in the way of a ripping yarn.

In a similar vein to your 'fat chance' and 'slim chance', why do we describe it as a 'near miss' when we nearly hit something?

i sem to recall something about crushing..
'the serphant'..under the heel

hell-o...heel is how far from hell
what more is there left to tell

we say we give our hell-o
but there we have..HE/lo

as in HE-aven..or HEll
i note the namy words now
ending in EL...[one of the many names of god]

so EL..is EVEN in the middle of hELl
just as with 'you shall call him emanuEL'
meaning..god[EL]..with[in]...us[all]....hels bells arnt b-ells

to much inmagry to convey
but if we wakeup pre 25 dec 2012
all may yet go wELl

Lexi,
Am currently reading 'Words fail Me' by Hugh Lunn. Its a follow up on his previous 'Lost for Words' both about Aussie language.

Australian Publications by an Aussie author with lots of experience.

Certainly worth reading.