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Crazy English!, w6 S7 h5 v3 C! R4 S" D
3 f$ t+ L# f r' BWe'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; But the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
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* |. `% h2 L: F" w. cOne fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
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You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
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If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?9 j x4 @' @ p2 ]& q
# n0 _2 A4 O' }( W, {If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be a beet?4 a* n c, x& _
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If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why shouldn't the plural of booths be called beet?
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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.
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We speak of a brother and also of brethren, But though we say mother, we never say methren.
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/ _0 k4 C1 e% z2 n& GThen the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.' [5 Z5 I* i3 z4 g
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Let's face it, English is a crazy language!9 _- v% S! A6 e& D4 D, [
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There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in a hamburger; Neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England.
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And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, Grocers done groce and hammers don't hamm? @3 u7 K# ^5 d+ o; q
9 \( P. M9 _7 ^; ?Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend?! y9 [* m0 i3 w: R* e$ s5 f0 N( w
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If you have a bunch of odds & ends, And get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
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If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?* N5 ^6 o* g; j* C
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If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
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* R `, h- [' C$ O7 n2 `In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?0 G) Q. a+ d5 J" M$ Y# w! k( v' |# Q( i
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Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?& s2 Y* n8 x( Q# ^$ q2 E+ M5 m
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Have noses that run and feet that smell?
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/ P0 e9 e8 Y. `# Y, fHow can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
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, w5 s9 Y$ j; \; ?7 y. D; O# sYou have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your
1 R3 ^6 Z& k1 YHouse burns down; in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on!5 @6 L2 w" E+ m% |$ i
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Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up speaking English Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane |
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