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Hi, All!

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became
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, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen? If I spoke 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? Then 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 masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the
feminine, she, shis and shim.

(With thanks to George Pope)

Cheers... Dallas
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