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Old March 6th, 2012, 03:03 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Things that make you go hmmm?
Ever find yourself wondering about stuff? Like for instance, I don't get why we call people from Finland Finns, people from Thailand Thais, people from Scotland Scots, but we never call people from England Engs? What's up with that??

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Old March 6th, 2012, 03:20 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Engla's were a germanic tribe called after their place of origin which was angular or angli (latin). Romans tagged the Northern part of the UK Engla land after them. Guess England stuck, but the Engla's weren't so successful. A real Englander will probably correct this.

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Old March 6th, 2012, 03:59 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Still freezin' our a***s off, Tex. Thanks for askin'! And by the way in the spirit of this thread we should perhaps now be called Newfounds lol
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Old March 6th, 2012, 05:02 PM   #4 (permalink)
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A real Englander will probably correct this.
It's cobblers. HTH.

Using the OP's rationale, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
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Would that make us Amers? LOL
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Old March 6th, 2012, 05:28 PM   #6 (permalink)
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A couple things that make me confused:

Why we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway

Why braile is on drive-up ATM buttons
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Old March 6th, 2012, 05:33 PM   #7 (permalink)
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A couple things that make me confused:

Why we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway

Why braile is on drive-up ATM buttons
This is what I'm talking about...no logic to this world at all. I mean Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland is actually quite green. Hmmmm?
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Old March 6th, 2012, 06:23 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Ever find yourself wondering about stuff? Like for instance, I don't get why we call people from Finland Finns, people from Thailand Thais, people from Scotland Scots, but we never call people from England Engs? What's up with that??
And we give certain countries completely new names (Germany, Japan) that have nothing to do with what they themselves call their country (Deutschland , Nippon).
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i dont get why "sheep" is the same plural or singular.

Sheeps seems perfectly viable
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Sheeps seems perfectly viable[/QUOTE]

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i dont get why "sheep" is the same plural or singular.

Sheeps seems perfectly viable
Same with fishes.
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It's cobblers. HTH.

Using the OP's rationale, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
I believe the politically correct term would be Nethers
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This is what I'm talking about...no logic to this world at all. I mean Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland is actually quite green. Hmmmm?
I actually have heard an explanation for that one. The vikings found them and named them like that so they could keep fertile Iceland to themselves and have nobody else want to come because of the implied climate.

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i dont get why "sheep" is the same plural or singular.

Sheeps seems perfectly viable
Yeah, and why do we have goose and geese, but moose and just moose again for the plural?
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How do they get the Teflon coating to stay in the pan?
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I the plural of mouse is mice, why isn't the plural of house hice?

goose > geese != moose > meese
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hmmm? so many things to make you wonder about this crazy world
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If a turtle loses his shell is he naked or homeless? hmmm
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