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[A teacher in high school told me “There are word boys and number boys. You’re a word boy.” (It was an all-boys school.) The word boys, of all ages, never tire of the joke about the fellow sly lover of words. About time to grow up, isn’t it? Not for me or Silverback Ross! SB SM]
From the Linguistics Department
1.Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?
2.Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
3.If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
4.If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
5.Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
6.Why does “slow down” and “slow up” mean the same thing?
7.Why does “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the
same thing?
8.Why do “tug” boats push their barges?
9.Why do we sing “Take me out to the ball game” when
we are already there?
10.Why are they called “stands” when they are made for sitting?
11.Why is it called “after dark” when it really is “after light”?
12.Doesn’t “expecting the unexpected” make the unexpected
expected?
13.Why are a “wise man” and a “wise guy” opposites?
14. Why do “overlook” and “oversee” mean opposite things?
15.Why is “phonics” not spelled the way it sounds?
16.If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?
17.If all the world is a stage, where is the audience
sitting?
18.Iflove is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
19.If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you
read all right?
20.Why is bra singular and panties plural?
21.Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote
control when you know the batteries are dead?
22.Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments
in a suitcase?
23.How come abbreviated is such a long word?
24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren’t we clean
when we use them?
25.Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
26.Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?
27. Christmas – What other time of the year do you sit
in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?
28. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
