Pickles by Brian Crane for June 11, 2023

Don’t feel bad, Earl. I wouldn’t have a answer for that question either.

A duckling is a baby duck, so a building would be a baby build. An apartment is housing, but not a house.

So a farthing is just a small fart?

Heard that back in the 80’s on a Gallagher special. They can still be seen on Tubi.He said buildings should be called builts, cause they’re already built. Or call them crumblings. Like, “I live in that crumblin’ over there”.

Well, you DO call a house a “dwelling” sometimes

It’s called an Uber, Grandpa!

One of the many things Google can’t do.

Nelson said it in the first panel, a building should be called a “built”.

Either heard of delivery, Earl?

Actually, sometimes we do call a house housing.

Build is a verb, building is a noun, Nelson!

But Google can help you find an ice cream parlor and tell you how to get there.

A house is a building. A school is a building. They have been built. But we, as a species, don’t give credit to other species so a nest is not a building because it was not built by us. But nesting takes place there.

You do say “housing” when it’s in a compound noun: Low-income housing, on-base housing.

That’s okay, Earl. You’re not irrelevant.

English is not a language; it’s three languages in a trench coat.

Why is it that if you send something by sea it’s a cargo, but if you send it by land it’s a shipment?

If you lose your left shoe then your right shoe is left.

And why does one drive through the parkway but park in the driveway?

I think he might have purchased one of Zipper’s dream plants.

Earl enters his unique selling point into the equation…

Should be called a “built”.

Does Mister Softee deliver?

Well, an English teacher said, do not say, “There’s a conflagration in the edifice.” And I heed them thar words.

Ah, an unanswerable question shouldn’t cancel a trip to the ice cream parlour.

The English language is the most confusing language….

And that’s when you say “I don’t know. Let’s go find out”.

It ends with “-ing” with means an it is ongoing process. Washing windows, repainting, repairing rotten wood … Until it falls down to become an “un-build”.

Because English.

I’m still trying to figure out why we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway!

This is part of a Gallagher monologue about words.

My Mom would have said, " to make kids ask questions!"

In English, the suffix “ing” can be used to turn a verb into a noun. This is called a gerund. In the case of “building,” the gerund form of the verb “to build,” it refers to the act of building. However, the gerund can also be used to refer to the finished product of the action. So, a “building” can refer to either the act of building something, or the finished structure that has been built.

Uh ohhhhhh……. Grampa’s being replaced……LOL

Just for the heck of it I googled it, this is the response ……. The reason buildings are called ‘buildings’ despite already being built is more to do with the oddities of the English language, rather than any engineering or architectural quirks. This is because the suffix ‘ing’ is a past participle, or gerund, that, when added to verbs, makes them nouns.

“Built”. It should be called a “built”. :)

The builder building buildings builds custom built buildnings

Nowadays, younger and younger children are turning to the internet, i.e., social media, rather than to ask their parents their questions which is a sad commentary on human kind in general.

Earl is playing his trump card.

Very funny, but google can get someone to deliver the ice cream…

A drawing isn’t called a draw.

Why do they call them Apartments when they are all stuck together??

Earl, just steer clear of “adult” “adulting” and “adultery”.

Why is it one scissors or a pair of pants, not a scissor, one pant?

it’s because English isn’t a proper language. It’s just a patchwork of words, phrases, pieces of grammar and weird conjugations mixed together into a potpourri :-D