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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

How Confusing Is This Poem?



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.


"And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation."
-John Hookham Frere



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