HUMOUR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

We’ll begin with box, the plural is boxes, but the plural of ox becomes oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, 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 called men, then shouldn’t the plural of pan be 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 the whole set are teeth, why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth.then one would 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. The masculine nouns are he, his and him. But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim. Lets face it, English is a crazy but beautiful language. If Father is Pop, how come Mother’s not Mop? And if people from Poland are Poles, those from Holland should be Holes. And the Germans, Germs!