Trying to get 200 posts.

You said ask you "anything" :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Why is it called a “hamburger” if there’s no ham?

If a “W” looks like this, why isn’t it called a “double-V" instead of a "double-U" ?

Why do we say “a pair of pants” if it’s only one thing?

Why is it called “football” when the players mostly use their hands?

Because tomatoes are a fruit, does that make ketchup a smoothie ?

Why does your nose "run" but your feet "smell" ?

Why are boxing rings square since they are called "rings" ?

Why do people recite at a play, yet play at a recital ?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

If a cow laughed real hard, would milk come out her nose?

If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?

If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

If a black box in a plane is indestructible, why can't they make the whole plane out of it?

How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

Is the color orange called that because it's the color of the fruit of the same name, or was the fruit called orange because that's its color? Which came first, the color or the fruit?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

Before the light bulb was invented, what appeared over peoples heads when they had an idea?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

If you put a chameleon in a mirrored box what color would it change to?

If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren’t afraid to have a Chapter 11?

If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

What’s another word for synonym?

If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?
 
I thought I'd get creative. Maybe let the forum pick what's left of my brain. Share my vast experience in my 7 months of metal detecting.
I could go back to old threads and bump em with a gl/hh. :laughing:
 
Yes!

You said ask you "anything" :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Why is it called a “hamburger” if there’s no ham?

If a “W” looks like this, why isn’t it called a “double-V" instead of a "double-U" ?

Why do we say “a pair of pants” if it’s only one thing?

Why is it called “football” when the players mostly use their hands?

Because tomatoes are a fruit, does that make ketchup a smoothie ?

Why does your nose "run" but your feet "smell" ?

Why are boxing rings square since they are called "rings" ?

Why do people recite at a play, yet play at a recital ?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

If a cow laughed real hard, would milk come out her nose?

If nothing ever sticks to Teflon, how do they make Teflon stick to the pan?

If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

If a black box in a plane is indestructible, why can't they make the whole plane out of it?

How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

Is the color orange called that because it's the color of the fruit of the same name, or was the fruit called orange because that's its color? Which came first, the color or the fruit?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

Before the light bulb was invented, what appeared over peoples heads when they had an idea?

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

If you put a chameleon in a mirrored box what color would it change to?

If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?

Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren’t afraid to have a Chapter 11?

If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

What’s another word for synonym?

If an orange is orange, why isn’t a lime called a green or a lemon called a yellow?

*Cracks knuckles*
 
Why are they called hamburgers if there’s no ham in them?

They actually get their name from Hamburg, Germany, home of a cut of beef called the Hamburg steak that eventually evolved into what we now consider hamburgers.
 
If a “W” looks like this, why isn’t it called a “double-V" instead of a "double-U" ?

If a “W” looks like this, why isn’t it called a “double-V" instead of a "double-U" ?

The name of the 23rd letter of the English alphabet is “double u” because it was originally written that way in Anglo-Saxon times.

As the Oxford English Dictionary explains it, the ancient Roman alphabet did not have a letter “w.”

So in the 7th century, when Latin was first used in early Old English writing, it was necessary to invent a symbol to represent that sound.

At first, the sound was represented by “uu”—literally a double “u.”

It wasn’t written as a “v” because the letter “v” didn’t exist in Old English, as we’ve written before on the blog. And a double “v” would not have approximated the sound anyway.

The “uu” was replaced by another symbol in the 8th century, a character from the Runic alphabet called a “wyn.”

In the 11th century, the old “uu” form was reintroduced by Norman scribes in a ligatured (that is, joined) form, written as “w.”

But as the OED says, “It has never lost its original name of ‘double U.’ ”
 
Why do we say “a pair of pants” if it’s only one thing?

Why do we say “a pair of pants” if it’s only one thing?

Bifurcated items (things that can be divided into two), such as pants, fall into this category. Think of items that are usually referred to in plural—often preceded by “pair of” or something similar, even when there is only one item: pliers, glasses, scissors, sunglasses, tweezers, etc. So, pants is a type of noun that is used only in its plural form, even when there is only one item being discussed.
 
Why is it called “football” when the players mostly use their hands?

At a time when most sports were played on horseback, the term "football" was originally used to describe games that were played on foot (not a game in which you kick a ball with your foot). This includes soccer, rugby and American football. "Football" as the rest of the world knows it (or "soccer" in the U.S.) was originally known as Association Football, which became "soccer" for short before being widely known as just "football." American football is more an evolution of rugby football or Aussie rules football, which emerged around the same time as Association football. The term "soccer" stuck in the U.S. while in Europe and other parts just "football" became more popular than "soccer." So when people say it's weird that the U.S. calls it "soccer," they only do so because the term was invented in Europe, and was the original term for the sport before it became just "football". In short, American football is known as such because of it's similarity to rugby football.
 
Because tomatoes are a fruit, does that make ketchup a smoothie ?

Not without really, really stretching the definition.

Ketchup is cooked, unlike most smoothies. And ketchup has substantial amounts of vinegar, not generally a smoothie ingredient, and sugar, which is usually very limited in fruit smoothies.

All of that leads to a very strongly flavored product which is consumed in condiment quantities, not beverage quantities.

As the joke goes: Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. :laughing:
 
Why does your nose "run" but your feet "smell" ?

It is basic physiology.Don’t complicate things.Nose has mucous glands with hairs which helps the body in trapping pollutants and infectants from entering inside the body.On the other hand,our feet is composed of millions of sweat pores when dirt and other things accumulate,it smells because of sweat mixed with the dirt n other dirty things of the ground.Also it should be noted that other body parts also stinks but in lesser proportion because of location.

Smell is an irregular verb. Meaning both:

An odour, detectable by the nose

To emit an odour.

Run is an intransitive verb.

It can mean :

To catch the bus in time, Harry had to run.

When he had a bad cold, his nose would run.

Her home was organized, and well run.

We had to buy all the bread in the bakers, as we didn't want to run out.
 
:laughing::laughing::laughing:

I was being funny posting those questions, but you really put your "thinking cap" on ! :lol:

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Why are boxing rings square since they are called "rings" ?

It goes back to the times when boxing fights used to be bare-knuckle fights, a circle was drawn in the dirt and prize fighters were ringed by the fans. The name ring continued with the Jack Broughton rules in 1743, which specifed a small circle in the centre of the fight area where the boxers met at the start of each round. The first square ring was introduced by the Pugilistic Society in 1838. That ring was specified as 24 feet (7.3 m) square and bound by two ropes.
The boxing ring is commonly referred to as the "square circle."
 
Only 200??? :lol:

Just reply to folks saying “awesome finds, like that Merc!” Etc. It’s sorta easy, fun, and kinda the spirit of this forum :)
 
Why do people recite at a play, yet play at a recital ?

You can also play at a play and recite at a recital. You can dance at a show and show at a dance.

English is a crazy language
 

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