THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Just a thought for those non-English speaking people......

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,
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 be called beeth?

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 musculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine : she shis and shim!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language,
For there's no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger '
neither apple nor pine in pineapple and
English muffins weren't even invented in England.
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 Guinea nor is it a pig.

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 a teacher 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
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same ,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
and an alarm goes off by going on.

And in closing, if Father is Pop,
how come Mother is not Mop?
AND IF PEOPLE IN POLAND ARE CALLED POLES
THEN PEOPLE IN HOLLAND SHOULD BE HOLES
AND THE GERMANS..... GERMS