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 WHAT ABOUT MALAYSIA?? YES!! WHAT ABOUT MALAYSIA??? In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway? Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall? Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when we transport something by ship, it's called cargo? Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists? And people who drive car called motorists? Why is it called a TV set when you get only one? Why - in our crazy language - can your nose run and your feet smell? Sometimes you have to believe t hat all English speakers should be co mmi tted to an asylum for the verbally insane: If olive oil is made of olives, what do they make baby o il f rom?

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WHAT ABOUT MALAYSIA?? YES!! WHAT ABOUT MALAYSIA???In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?

Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?

Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when we transport

something by ship, it's called cargo?

Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists?And people who drive car called motorists?

Why is it called a TV set when you get only one?

Why - in our crazy language - can your nose run and your feet smell?

Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for 

the verbally insane:

If olive oil is made of olives, what do they make baby oil from?

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We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and

the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say ! mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Lets face it, English is a crazy language!

(and Bahasa Kebangsaan of Malaysia is screwed !!)