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What's In A Word?
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If you take an Oriental person and spin him
around several times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called "Poles,"
why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?" Why do we say something is out of whack? What
is a whack? If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled? When someone asks you, "A penny for your
thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to
the other penny? Why is the person who invests all your money
called a broker? Why do croutons come in airtight packages?
It's just stale bread to begin with. When cheese gets its picture taken, what does
it say? Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite
things? If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific
mean to make terrible? Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked,
doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians
denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked
and dry cleaners depressed? Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"? Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure? |
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