English anomalies

[Obligation]

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?

Have noses that run and feet that smell?



..Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

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How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites?

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How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

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How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?

[Semih_Sayginer]

any chance of thinking these up and putting them in one post?

i keep going back to the main forum page to see theres a new post, only to find one in each....

ya nutter

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Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent?

Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown?

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They're funnier dispersed, or it's harder to read..

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...Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable?

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And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

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A house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

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English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all).

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When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up an essay, I end it.

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We polish the Polish furniture.

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

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A farm can produce produce.

The dump was so full it had to refuse refuse.

[snookersfun]

Statman, happy now???