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Only the British could have invented this 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.

That confusing language called English!

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, and that boxing rings are square .

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, must be two meese?

Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell.  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

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