Funny English

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I found this piece while I was surfing the net, and wanted to share it with you


We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes;
Then one fowl is a goose, but who are called geese,
Yet the plural of mouse is never meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a whole set of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be pen?
It I speak of a foot and you show me your feet
And I give you the boot, would a pair be called a beet?
If one is tooth, and a whole set are teeth,
Why should not the plural of booth be beeth?
Then one may be that, and three may be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.
We speak of brother and 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!
[::s2::]

 

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God wills; characters and a wonderful poem
I like it and useful to learn
Words and collection method
Thank you my brother to choose beautiful
And wonderful; and we are sure that the next
Beautiful - that God
 

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God wills; characters and a wonderful poem
I like it and useful to learn
Words and collection method
Thank you my brother to choose beautiful
And wonderful; and we are sure that the next
Beautiful - that God



Thanks sis [بروق الحيّ]a lot for your gentle reply
By the way how do you write your name?
 

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Here is another article on English craziness


Let’s face it: English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant or ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England or french fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
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? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what 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? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day an cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
Now I know why I flunked my English. It’s not my fault; the silly language doesn’t quite
know whether it’s coming or going.




[:=D:]​
 
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