Wednesday, July 18, 2007

thought of the day

Why is woman pronounced "women," and women is pronounced "wimen?"

6 comments:

Jenn said...

Cause when God made Eve, Adam studied her to give her a name and said, "WOA MAN!"

That's in the Book of Meahkumhupsalot. I'm sure of it.

Jenn said...

(Translations: Make things up a lot)

Dawn said...

This is such a JK question.

woa man! good. very good.

BTW... I have no idea...just one of those strange quirks of our language, I suppose.

Anonymous said...

the english language is frought with things of that nature

Seeker said...

English is the strangest language on earth.

Meow (aka Connie) said...

The English languag is quite bizarre, isn't it.
Take care, Meow