Funny English Facts

The plural of a box is boxes

But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese.

Yet the plural moose should never be meese.

You may find a one 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 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 called beeth?

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburgers.

Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.

Why a writers write and fingers don’t fring, grocers don’t groce, and hammer don’t ham.

If the teacher taught and why don’t preachers prought.

English is a funny language.

If father is pop, how come mother is not a mop?

I would like to conclude that if people from Poland are called Poles, then people from Holland should be Holes.

K. Vasudha

VIII C