Wednesday, December 19, 2018

This is English - "ignore what I say but know what I mean" Huh ???

This is English - "ignore what I say but know what I mean" Huh ???

Here's a partial list of things you probably need help with:

White chocolate is not chocolate - there are no cocoa beans used, only cocoa butter.

Fireflies are not flies and are not made of fire, they’re beetles.

Starfish aren’t fish, they’re echinoderms.

Guinea pigs aren’t pigs, they're rodents.

Koala bears aren’t bears, they’re marsupials.

A titmouse is not a mouse and it’s not a ti… whoops it’s a bird.

Peanuts aren’t nuts, they’re legumes.

There are 1864 islands in the Thousand Islands archipelago.

The Thousand Days’ War lasted 1130 days.

The Hundred Years’ War lasted 116 years.

A shooting star is not a star, it's a meteor.

A plane’s black box isn’t black, it’s orange to help locate it.

Re-fried beans are not fried more than once.

The Red Sea isn’t red.

The Black Sea isn’t black.

Catgut isn’t made from cats, it’s made from goat or sheep.

Cat burglars do not steal cats.

There are male ladybugs.

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