Closer view of a human thumb. Image by Dake via Wikipedia
For the past updates, jokes have been an essential tool to help learners learn language, especially to the younger learners. They honestly don’t want to embrace the boring side of learning, for God’s sake; any learner wouldn’t want that. So to add a humor to a learner’s journey –like you—we’re going to detail here some of the funniest English jokes and trivia that will both surprise and giggle you.
Trivia
- If you type in failure in Google, and select “I’m feeling lucky”, you will be redirected to the White House web page.
- The phrase “rule of thumb” comes from and old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb?
- The dot on top of the letter “i” is called a tittle. Tittle is Latin and means that something is very small?
- The words silent and listen have the same letters
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard.
- No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH.” or the word ORANGE!!!
- “Aegilops” is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order?
- The longest words that are reverse images of each other are stressed and desserts.
- A crocodile really does produce tears, but they’re not due to sadness. The tears are glandular secretions that work to expel excess salt from the eyes. Hence, “crocodile tears” are false tears
Jokes
- So English, I fancy you all agree, is the funniest language you ever did see.
- English might be the most widespread language in the world but there’s still no ham in hamburger, no egg in eggplant and neither pine nor apple in pineapple.
- The thing you’re looking for is always found in the last place you look.
- What did the man who walked into a bar say? Ouch!
- Why did the boy eat his homework? Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake.
- What are two things people never eat before breakfast? Lunch and dinner.
- Why is the number six so scared? Because seven eight nine!
- If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
- If we are the human race, then who is winning?
- If vegetarians eat vegetables then what on earth do humanitarians eat?!
- Some writing tips:
Exaggeration is a trillion times worse than understatement.
Rhetorical questions, who needs them?
When writing in English, contractions shouldn’t be used.
Stop using exclamation marks!!!
Amazing and hilarious, isn’t it? So if you want to know more about the versatility of the most universal language we have today, click on our “learn English at language school”section.
