My friend who's from China was asking me to help her edit some reference letters from her Chinese teachers.
I love how she makes me think of English in different ways. It's so second nature to me, and yet it's so hard for others. It makes me feel better about sucking at Spanish. Jean's English is actually really, really good.
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One mouse, but two mice. So why isn't it one house but not two hice?
One goose, two geese. So why not one moose, two meese?
Time flies like lightening, but fruit flies like bananas, right?
Park on the driveway, and drive on the parkway? Send it by boat and it's cargo, but send it by car and it's a shipment.
In a big freeze, everything gets frozen. So in a big breeze, why doesn't everything get brozen?
Dressing down is the opposite of dressing up. Why isn't burning down the opposite of burning up?
Did you hear about the guy who killed a lion with nothing but a club? Of course, there were sixty members of the club...
You win today, but if it happened yesterday, you won. So if you sin today, why can't you say that yesterday you son?
A single drip is a drop. So why isn't a single slip a slop?
You put flooring on a floor. So why don't you put ceiling on a ceil?
English is a funny language.
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