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A funny poem about plurals in English...You will laugh your head off :) :)... 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.
28 Thg 11 2012 17:05
Bài chữa · 5
Happy to see you too.. :-)
29 tháng 11 năm 2012
Lmho..:D .. Too funny. But this also makes me ponder as to how and when can I master this language?..seems impossible to me at times! Good entry.Thought provoking!
28 tháng 11 năm 2012
This what makes English so difficult. Too many exceptions in every part of the language!
28 tháng 11 năm 2012
I liked the whole thing...I just could not resist myself from posting it... :P... btw, I saw in your profile that you are from Coimbatore and guess what, even I am from Coimbatore...Happy to see you here, because not many people from Tamilnadu use Italki, at least from what I have seen... :)
28 tháng 11 năm 2012
Lol.. I liked the feminine part.... she, shis, shim :-D
28 tháng 11 năm 2012
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