BUZZING EGGS

Language is indeed something that is interesting and can be humorous, too. Nothing beats a cute and innocent prank for a few laughs, and this man’s wife had the perfect one for him. He asked her to mark the boiled eggs with ‘B’s. However, he got a set of eggs with cute bees drawn on them. Any degree of adorableness will surely make anyone chuckle. We just hope that the ink has not seeped in, rendering the egg indelible, err… inedible.

The husband, in this instance, used a concept in language studies called homophones, which are words that sound alike but have different spellings. In this case, “bees” and “Bs”. Another example is “knew” and “new”. It is a very interesting area of study because it only shows how rich English is considering the many influences it had from the various Germanic and Latin languages.