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> > > > > We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
> > > > > but the plural of ox > > > > > became oxen not oxes. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, > > > > > yet the plural of moose should never be meese. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If the plural of man is always called men, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Then one may be that, and three would be those, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > yet hat in the plural would never be hose, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We speak of a brother and also of brethren, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > but though we say mother, we never say methren. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Let's face it, English is a crazy language. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is no egg in eggplant, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > nor ham in hamburger; > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > neither apple nor pine in pineapple. > > > > > English muffins weren't invented in England. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We take English for granted. > > > > > But if we explore its paradoxes, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > we find that quicksand can work slowly, > > > > > boxing rings are square > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it > > > > > a pig. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And why is it that writers write but fingers don't > > > > > fing, > > > > > grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Doesn't it seem crazy that you can > > > > > make amends, but not one amend? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If you have a bunch of odds and ends > > > > > and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call > > > > > it? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a > > > > > humanitarian eat? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up > > > > > speaking English > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > should be committed to an asylum for the verbally > > > > > insane > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In What other language do people recite at a play > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and play at 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. > > > > > ~Author > > > > > > Unknown~ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > |
:lol: Good, Good :D
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