The English Plural
>according to....
>We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
>But the plural of ox becomes 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 speak 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 there 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?
>We ship by truck but send cargo by ship...
>We have noses that run and feet that smell.
>We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
>And 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.
>And in closing..........
>If Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop.???
>Geoff B
joi, 17 noiembrie 2011
Abonați-vă la:
Postare comentarii (Atom)
-
(DE/EN) Dragi prieteni Animal Life, Iata ca incet incet ne apropiem de visul nostru, acela de a avea un locusor linistit pentru cateii ...
-
SUNT UN PACATOS, PARINTE de Ion Minulescu La parintele Vintila Vine-Arvinte, cam sfios Si se roaga: Fie-ti mi...
ADOPTA 1 CUT!
a title="Adoptii caini" href="http://www.adoptiicaini.ro/">
Niciun comentariu:
Trimiteți un comentariu