Luyện nghe bài hát English is Cuh-ray-zee

English is the most widely spoken in the history of the planet.
One out of seven human beings can speak or read it.
Half the books, 3/4 of the international mail are in English.
It has the largest vocabulary, two million words,
And a noble body of literature. But it:
is cuh-ray-zee!

Just a few examples: There's no egg in eggplant, no pine or in pineapple.
Quicksand works boxing rings are square.
A writer writes, but do fing?
Hammers ham, grocers don't groce. Haberdashers don't haberdash.
is cuh-ray-zee!

If the plural of tooth is teeth, the plural of booth be beeth?
It's one goose, two geese. Why not one moose, two
If one index, two indices; why not one Kleenex, two Kleenices?
is cuh-ray-zee!

You can comb through the annals of history, but not one annal.
You can make amends, but not one amend.
If you have a bunch of and ends and get rid of all but one, is it an odd or an end?
If the teacher taught, why isn't it that a preacher praught?
If you wrote a letter, did you also bote tongue?
And if a vegetarian eats vegetables, does a humanitarian eat?
is cuh-ray-zee!

Why is it that night falls but never breaks and day but never falls?
In what other do people drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
Ship by but send cargo by ship? Recite at a play but play at a recital?
Have noses that run and feet that
is cuh-ray-zee!

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the
a wise man and a wise guy are very different?
To overlook and to oversee something are very different,
But a lot and quite a few are the same.
How can the be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
is cuh-ray-zee!

You to marvel at the lunacy of a language in which your house can burn down
it is burning up. You fill out a form by filling it in.
In which your alarm clock goes off by on.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the of progress?

Well, was invented by people, not computers
And the creativity of the human race.
So why when the stars are out, they're visible,
But when the lights are out, invisible.
When I wind up my watch I start it, but when I wind up rap,
I end it. is cuh-ray-zee!