Er-rant Words

We all know a farmer farms, runner runs and baker bakes.  So…

… why doesn’t a butcher butch and an archer arch?

… if you crack a cracker, aren’t you the cracker?

… do animals get mange from a manger?

… aren’t you the zipper when you zip a zipper?

… is your broker more broke than you?

… do big numbers make you numb?

… why don’t grocers groce and soldiers soldy?

… how come a diner dines on dinner in a diner?

… why don’t hammers ham and pliers ply?

… can you make lather on a lathe?

… isn’t it odd that a prayer sayer says a prayer?

… if you work in an office, doesn’t that make you an officer?

… shouldn’t a bird that crows be called a crower?

… wouldn’t a sweater that does what it is supposed to, stink?

… did you ever hear a bladder blad or an udder udd?

… shouldn’t the customer of a barber be called a barbee?

… instead of saying a plasterer plasters, why not a plaster plasts?

… is a peer someone who urinates?

… does a butler butle or an usher ush?

… how come a stag can stagger, but so can a staggerer stagger?

… shouldn’t someone attending be called an attender instead of an attendee?

… why is a laid piece called a layer instead of a layee?

… when the finger fings won’t the trigger trig?

… how strange is a stranger?

… if a rooster roosts, shouldn’t a beaver beave or a panther panth?

… would you rather be a putter or a putterer?

… why does a pest pester instead of a pester pest?

… what does a teller tell?

… couldn’t titter or butter describe a man charmed by a woman’s physique?

… is it the pooper you scoop with the pooper-scooper?

… when you wait for a waiter, aren’t you the waiter?

… why can you lower your voice but not higher your voice?

This entertaining page is just one of the many humorous pages showing how English language words can be fun, often being the center of jokes, witticisms, puns, and jest and bringing smiles if not laughter to the comedian in each of us.