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"Oh My English!" is a Malaysian Educational sitcom that was created to encourage Malaysians to learn and master the English language. The setting of the show revolves around students and English language teachers in a school. I believe the creators of the show took the idea from another sitcom that was created many years ago called "Mind Your Language".

The English language is a universal language that is spoken widely throughout the world. It is a language that is easy to learn yet it can be quite tricky to master. If you are old school like me where you still use the dictionary to look up words instead of the new age method of googling, you will find that there are many words in the English language that bear the same spelling but carry different definition and meaning depending on how the word is used. Below is a list of words from the English language to show you an example of what I mean. Check it out...

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.

2. The farm was used to produce produce.

3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse refuse.

4. We must polish the Polish furniture.

5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10. I did not object to the object.

11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12. There was a row among the oarsman about how to row.

13. They were not close enough to the door to close it.

14. The Buck does funny things when the does are present.

15. A seamstress and a sewer fell into the sewer line.

16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18. After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Do you see what I'm getting at? English is a tricky, funky and crazy language. Think about it... there is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple or pine in pineapple.

Trippy, right?

In what language do people recite at a play or play a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? 

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

English, to me, is a language of the verbally insane. It was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.