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Crazy English!
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We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; But the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
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6 ^2 h( ~4 h* R. s" e/ }* T* KOne 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.9 e5 O6 t& o5 `/ f" j$ `+ j

2 q" b2 \9 s: d$ [3 q4 j* M% yIf the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?. \) q" ]& Q8 r7 c7 O: t7 O
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If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, And I give you a boot, would a pair be a beet?) Z7 L8 K  a2 s
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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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Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
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Let's face it, English is a crazy language!
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. z6 L9 D- d" W; D) pThere is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in a hamburger; Neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England.) _: z, J* |% C

! ]; a, A# v4 T% H6 fAnd why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, Grocers done groce and hammers don't hamm?* H; ^3 P% N: w+ o; X" W% c$ _* ]
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Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends, but not one amend?# X1 ~6 O$ Q9 ?( [- U9 G
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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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) ]4 v" I4 G  L3 i5 N# K+ o4 sIf teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
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If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
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2 L$ p4 @9 j, `% {% qIn what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
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2 ~* T- U1 n' J4 c6 N0 d" nShip by truck and send cargo by ship?
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Have noses that run and feet that smell?) R/ q; K3 Y6 y6 i6 Z' W7 ^

& B9 n0 e# l) |5 O( HHow 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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You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your
9 B. q% `8 A; v8 FHouse burns down; in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on!
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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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