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How come noses run but feet smell, and other philosophical questions

Written by : TNM

The News Minute | September 18, 2014 | 12.17 pm IST Ever notice that in the English language, we say that the nose runs and feet smell? Well, somebody did, and a lot of somebodys noticed many other funny things about the English language.Language quirks are one thing, life quirks are another. For instance, as this twitter user points out, that babies spend nine months in the womb, but they aren’t nine months old when they are born.There are more philosophical questions like this complied by an Imgur user:Just so we can add a desi twist to this, we would like to recall a famous line from the film Chupke Chupke “agar T-o tu hota hai, toh g-o gu kyun nahi hota? (gu means shit in Hindi)”

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