This is ridiculous, oh yes it is.
It's one that I learned as a child.
I'm a bear, by the way, and let me share this poem with you.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy.
Okay, so let's get back to the basics here.
I'm here to teach you about the word "bear",
so that's why I'm dressed up like a bear.
Everyone knows, well, some people know that a bear is an animal, right?
Like "rawr, I'm going to eat you", or some people eat bears, let's not go there.
So, we know bear is a noun, it's an animal, "rawr, look at me".
But the funny thing is, too, that "bear" is also a verb.
What?
But the verb part is, you know, where things
get funny, and how we have a sense of humour.
Do you know what one of those are?
Do you know what one of those "are" is?
Well, let me walk you through it, right?
It's playing with words so that the meanings become different.
So, "bear" as one verb means to carry, so I'm going to carry something, or we can say
- oh man, this is very, I think, our friends south of the border, American.
You have the right to bear arms.
So, in my brain, I think it's an arm, I think
it's a person with bear arms, "rawr", but
actually no, it doesn't mean that in this sentence.
You have the right to carry arms, and again, arms, but arms are these things.
"Arms" in this sentence means things like firearms, like guns, or ammunition, all the
Don't let anyone tell you differently.
So, you have the right to bear arms.
You have the right to carry weapons.
Yes.
You can still have arms of a bear if you wanted
to, you could paint them up and, you know,
it's almost Halloween where I am.
This doesn't sound as cool, does it?
Next one, very common phrase is "support", I don't know, engineering things.
"The bridge", you know what a bridge is?
Okay.
"The bridge can't bear the weight of cars."
Okay, but not the animal, right?
So, I could say, "The bear can't support the
weight of cars", or "The bridge can't bear
Fun.
See?
Why can't it be, like, a giraffe?
"The bridge can't giraffe", now it just doesn't
sound as good anymore, okay, "endure", oh,
"I can't bear the pain", so dramatic.
Isn't as effective as "I can't giraffe the pain", so, "I can't bear the pain" means I
"I had to bear seven minutes of talking to someone", oh my god.
So, "endure" means to have to do something that you don't like, like studying.
Oh man, now I had to endure English class.
So, do you have a car or not, or whatever?
And sometimes in the voice that speaks to me
in my car, also known as my phone, I didn't
know it had this option that it talked.
Anyways, sometimes on, like, whatever map thing you're using, it'll say "bear left",
and you're like, "There's a bear on the left, what's going on?"
There's no bear, because you're driving on the highway, and it basically means change
direction or just go, go left.
But just to make things complicated and make
accidents, they're going to say "bear", "bear
left", "bear left", "bear right", "bear", no bear, just change direction and go.
Okay.
Yeah, this is just weird, isn't it?
But again, better than giraffe.
Next up, "naked", "nude", "without clothes or", in Fuzzy Wuzzy's case, "without fur".
Okay?
So, if you're nude or naked, it means you're not wearing any clothes.
Animals have fur, humans have hair.
If you're human and you don't have hair, it's
called "bald", but for an animal without fur,
So, example, "Her arms were bare", not the animal, so she got a sunburn.
This happens to me if I don't cover my arms
when I go out into the sun, I get a sunburn.
This is what we call, you got it, a homophone.
So, this word "bear" and this word "bear" have the exact same pronunciation, which is
confusing in English because this looks like
"beer", but it's not, and this is "bear",
Believe me, just believe me, it's the same.
So, "bear" can be a noun, "bear" can be a verb
having four different meanings, and "bear"
So, me, I'm off to find Fuzzy Wuzzy and have a beer with Fuzzy Wuzzy.