{"id":340152,"date":"2006-11-21T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=340152"},"modified":"2006-11-21T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T07:54:39","slug":"problems-with-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/problems-with-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with english"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nhey Butterflies this isn’t really a riddle but its funny…. <\/p>\n

The English Lesson <\/font>

\nWe’ll begin with box, and the plural is boxes,
\nBut the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes.
\nThen one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,
\nYet the plural of moose should never be meese.
\nYou may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
\nBut the plural of house is houses, not hice.
\nIf the plural of man is always called men,
\nWhy shouldn’t the plural of pan be pen?
\nThe cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
\nBut the plural of vow is vows, not vine.
\nAnd I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,
\nBut I give a boot… would a pair be beet?
\nIf one is a tooth, and a whole set is teeth,
\nWhy shouldn’t the plural of booth be beeth?
\nIf the singular is this, and the plural is these,
\nWhy shouldn’t the plural of kiss be kese?
\nThen one may be that, and three be those,
\nYet the plural of hat would never be hose.
\nWe speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
\nBut though we say mother, we never say methren.
\nThe masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
\nBut imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.
\nSo our English, I think you will agree,
\nIs the trickiest language you ever did see.<\/font>

\nI take it you already know
\nof tough, and bough and cough and dough?
\nOthers may stumble, but not you
\non hiccough, through, slough and though.
\nWell done! And now you wish, perhaps
\nTo learn of less familiar traps?
\nBeware of heard, a dreadful word
\nThat looks like beard and sounds like bird.
\nAnd dead; it’s said like bed, not bead!
\nFor goodness sake, don’t call it deed!
\nWatch out for meat and great and threat,
\n(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
\nA moth is not a moth in mother,
\nNor both in bother, broth in brother.
\nAnd here is not a match for there,
\nNor dear and fear for bear and pear,
\nAnd then there’s dose and rose and lose \u2013
\nJust look them up \u2013 and goose and choose,
\nAnd cork and work and card and ward
\nAnd font and front and word and sword.
\nAnd do and go, then thwart and cart.
\nCome, come, I’ve hardly made a start.
\nA dreadful language: Why, man alive,
\nI’d learned to talk when I was five.
\nAnd yet to write it, the more I tried,
\nI hadn’t learned it at fifty-five.<\/font>
\nRegards <\/font><\/font><\/b><\/b><\/div>\n


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hey Butterflies this isn’t really a riddle but its funny…. The English Lesson We’ll begin with box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes. Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-71"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satfrequencies.com\/girls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}