52 Seen or Heard

Something Seen or Heard

Pluralistics

We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen not oxes.

Then 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 whole set of mice,
But the plural of house is houses not hice

If the plural of man is always called men,
Shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot would a pair be called beet?

Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural wouldn't be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethern,
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.

So English, I fancy, you all will agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see.

-- Annonymous

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