1) The bandage was wound around the wound.   

2)  The farm was used to produce produce. 

3)  The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4)  We must polish the Polish furniture. 

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

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

7)  Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present 

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. 

11)  The insurance was invalid for the invalid. 

12)  There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row ...

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

14)  The buck does funny things when the does 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. 

18)  Upon seeing the tear in the painting I 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? 

Let's  face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in   England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are  candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore  its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a  pig. 

You  lovers of the English language might enjoy this. 

There is  a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than  any other two-letter word, and that  is 'UP'

It's easy to understand UP , meaning  toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we  awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a  meeting, why does a topic  come UP ? Why do  we speak UP and why  are the officers UP for  election and why is it UP to the  secretary to write UP a report  ? 

We  call UP our friends. We use it to  brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UPthe leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old  car. At other times the little word has real special  meaning. People stir UP trouble,  line UPfor tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UPexcuses.  To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. 

And this UP is confusing: A drain must be  opened UP because it is stopped UP. We openUP a store in the morning and we close it UP at night. 

We seem  to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the  word UP in the  dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost  1/4th of the page and can add UP to about  thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.  It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP,you may  wind UP with a  hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP .. When  the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP ...

When  it rains, it wets the earth and often messes  things UP. 

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP .

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap  it UP, for now my time is UP,  so........it is time to shut UP ! 

Oh . . .  one more  thing: 


What is  the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P