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You think English is easy? Check out the following.

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.

2. The farm was cultivated to produce produce.

3. The dump was so full that the workers had to refuse more refuse.

4. We must polish the Polish furniture shown at the store.

5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6. The soldier decided to desert his tasty dessert in the desert.

7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present to his girlfriend.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10. I did not object to the object which he showed me.

11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid in his hospital bed.

12. There was a row among the oarsmen about who would row.

13. They were too close to the door to close it.

14. The buck does funny things when the does (females) are present.

15. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail around the mast.

18. Upon seeing the tear in her painting she shed a tear.

19. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Heteronyms

These are brilliant. Homonyms or homographs are words of like spelling, but with more than one meaning and sound.

When pronounced differently. they are known as heteronyms.

THE CHAOS
by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

One of my favorite examples of crazy English is: "All of the faith that he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life."

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

I’ve always heard English is three languages stacked up and wearing a trench coat.

This is a terrible example. All these sentances are easy to understand the meaning of.

There are also sentances like this in other languages(ex.: As fi luat o noua broasca la ora noua, dar m-a oprit o broasca.)

8 and 20 got me. Honestly never used the word "intimate" in that context before. I don't even know where the stress is.

The latter of the two is "INtimate", I'm assuming the former is "intiMATE".

Finland: laughs in

kuusi palaa 

Variation:

https://youtu.be/Mfz3kFNVopk#t=1m46s

Number 10; I wonder what object he showed her 😈

* laughs in Ukrainian

Very nice! Fun fact: half of these homonyms work in neo-Latin languages, too.

I know this is really just pointing out some amusing homonyms for laughs, but languages aren't really harder or easier to learn. How hard or easy you find a language depends on you, the languages you know and how different the other language is.

It's common to hear that English is hard because English is the most common second language, so there's are just more people who've tried to learn it and thus more people who've struggled.

Let me show you some Russian https://cheezburger.com/8488834304/trolling-russian-cursive

Anglos cannot accept their language is the easiest european one to learn for some reason.

It’s a lazy language tbh. One of the less complex

There is also [email protected] for people interested

The worst part is that some of this text difficulties are unwritten grammar rules.

Read, reed, read.