Asylum For The Verbally Insane

My oral test with Brian Lim...

Brian :
We'll start with a 'box', and the plural is 'boxes',
But the plural of 'ox' is 'oxen', not 'oxes',
For fowl are called 'goose', and two are called 'geese',
Yet the plural of 'moose' shall never be 'meese'..

Me :
You may find a lone 'mouse' or a full nest of 'mice',
Yet the plural of 'house' is 'houses', not 'hice'.
If the plural of 'man' is always be 'men',
Why shouldn't the plural of 'pan' called 'pen'?

If I speak of my 'foot' and give you my 'feet',
And I give you a 'boot', should a pair called 'beet'?
If one is called 'tooth' and the whole set is called 'teeth',
Why shouldn't the plural of 'booth' be called 'beeth'?

Then one may be 'that', and three would be 'those',
Yet 'hat' in plural shall never called 'hose',
And the plural of 'cat' is 'cats', not 'cose'!

We speak of 'brother' and also of 'brethren',
But though we say 'mother', we never say 'methren',
Then the masculine prouns are 'he', 'his' and 'him,
But imagine for the feminines: 'she', 'SHIS' and 'SHIM'??!

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 in which an alarm goes 'off' by going 'on'!

And, in closing, if a 'father' is called 'pop'...

How come 'mother' is not 'mop'??




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