Tuesday, July 17, 2012

WHY ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS VERY CONFUSING?

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.











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