All languages are funny, in different ways. So is English. So I am just having fun with English here.
If you had to find the comparative and superlative for 'I', it would be Iyer and Iyest. I, Iyer and Iyest. Did I hear an I I O?
Why is a dentist called a dentist when he does not repair dents?
Is spice the plural of spouse?
Does everything that starts with the prefix Wiki always leak? Or is it that everything that leaks can be called a Wiki?
Does Waka, Waka have any relation to Wiki, Wiki?
Why does DoCoMo sound a lot like Quasimodo, or an exotic African parrot, by any name?
If Pizza Hut upgrades, will it become a Pizza Palace, or will it only be a Pizza Apartment?
If a government stops governing, what should it be called?
'Anna' means food in many Indian languages. So why is he always fasting?
European governments don't know their differential calculus. That is why, they will never have a "derivatives"-led crisis. Only deficit-driven ones.
If Romanov is not made in Rome, where is Smirnoff not made? In Smurf-land?
What is TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) called in places where the weekend starts on a Thursday?
and a trivia question-
When the glaciers melt, will the coastal communities worldwide get frozen fish home-delivered?
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