In this season of MoI controversy,* *I would like to share some lighter verse on the English language which I came across. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Regards, Marshall *An Ode to English language!* ** 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 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!**** ** ** 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 some moreā¦**** 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.**** Your house can burn up as it burns down.**** We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.**** You fill in a form by filling it out, and in which an alarm goes off by going on.**** Father is Pop, but Mother's not Mop?**** ** **