Language Jokes

Creative wording

|BEING CREATIVE WITH TROUBLESOME KIN You are working on your family genealogy and for sake of example, let's say that your great-great uncle, Remus Starr, a...

 

Poem of English

|Dearest creature in creation,Study English pronunciation.I will teach you in my verseSounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.I will keep you, Suzy,...

 

Europe English

|The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other...

 

Tips to improve your writing

|1. Avoid alliteration. Always.2. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.3. Employ the vernacular.4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc. 5....

 

A lecture about English

|A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though,...