WORD WORM Examining the English language...its use...and its misuse.

  

Kids Say the Oddest Things
Here's a look at some of the mis-phrasing that kids have done in butchering the English language. But at least we can't blame them too much, after all...who was teaching them?

One of the main causes of dust is janitors

In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon

The opposite of height is lowth.

A census taker is man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

The book was so exciting I couldn't finish it until I put it down.

In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to Utah

In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits and threw the java.

We had a longer holiday than usual this year because the school was closed for altercations.

In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.

Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birth mark.

The general direction of the Alps is straight up

God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma

Female moths are called myths.

Most of the houses in France are made of plaster of Paris.

David was a Hebrew king skilled at playing the liar

One byproduct of raising cattle is calves.

One of Jacob's sons, Joseph gave refuse to the Israelites.

One of their children, Cain, once asked, "Am I my brother's son?"

The bowels are a,e,i,o,u and sometimes y.

Iron was discovered because someone smelt it.

The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 opossums.

A person should take a bath once in the summer, not so often in the winter

Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw

They lived in the Sarah Desert and traveled by Camelot.

The Bible is full of interesting caricatures.

Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.