Luyện nghe bài hát English is Cuh-ray-zee

English is the most widely spoken language in the of the planet.
One out of every human beings can speak or read it.
Half the world's books, 3/4 of the 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 or apple in pineapple.
Quicksand works boxing rings are square.
A writer writes, but do fing?
Hammers don't ham, grocers groce. Haberdashers don't haberdash.
is cuh-ray-zee!

If the of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?
one goose, two geese. Why not one moose, two meese?
If it's one index, two indices; why not one Kleenex, two
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 of odds and ends and get rid of all but one, is it an odd or an end?
If the taught, why isn't it true that a preacher praught?
If you wrote a letter, did you also your tongue?
And if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a eat?
is cuh-ray-zee!

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

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

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

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