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sushvanth (18)4 years ago

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.




The one fowl is goose, but two are call ed geese.
Yet the plural of moose, should never be meese.



You may find a lone mouse or a nest of mice.
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.



If the plural of man is always men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be call ed pen?



If I spoke of my foot, and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be call ed beet?


Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose.



When we say brother, we say brethren.
But though we may say mother, we never say methren.



Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis, and shim.


So, English I fancy you will agree
Is the craziest language that you ever did see

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 46/100. coral999 (171)   4 years ago

Even tho its my native tongue i have to agree. good poem.Trouble with English its made from many other languages. Sort of a mongrel tongue I suppose.lol



myLot reputation of 98/100. rainbow (3928)  4 years ago

Yep, that's it, English is strange, we have bits of so many other cultures mixed in. Have you noticed how pigeon english, as spoken by those just learning seems to now be called street and is virtually impossible for anyone over 20 to understand? innit, woteva?

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2. karthik2005 (24)   4 years ago

telugu is the craziest language in the world


myLot reputation of 89/100. Victoria7 (834)  4 years ago

Where is that spoken?

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3. myLot reputation of 76/100. KHyuga (1743)   4 years ago

Yes, such is the oddity of English. I wonder who invented all these words in the first place.

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4. myLot reputation of 50/100. krishna183 (1982)   4 years ago

i really wanna know who decided and designed the various things in english language .. i really wanna know lol

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5. myLot reputation of 60/100. clintz15 (971)   4 years ago

ya i too agree ....
english is the craziest language on earth!

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6. myLot reputation of 56/100. dnatureofdtrain (3935)   4 years ago

Laughs and Shis and Shim are used as gender neutral pronouns:) ... English is crazy, I still struggle with it even though its my first language! lol - DNatureofDTrain

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7. myLot reputation of 95/100. Noot54 (4433)   4 years ago

English is a widely distributed language originating in England that is currently the primary language of several countries. It is extensively used as a second language and as an official language in many other countries. English is the most widely taught and understood language in the world, and sometimes is described as a lingua franca. Although Modern Standard Chinese has more mother-tongue speakers (approximately 700 million) English is used by more people as a second or foreign language, putting the total number of English-speakers worldwide at well over one billion.

An estimated 354 million people speak English as their first language. Estimates about second language speakers of English vary greatly between 150 million and 1.5 billion. English is the dominant international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, diplomacy and the Internet. It has been one of the official languages of the United Nations since its founding in 1945.

English is a West Germanic language that developed from Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons. English, having its major roots in Germanic languages, derives most of its grammar from Old English. As a result of the Norman Conquest, it has been heavily influenced, more than any other Germanic language, by French and Latin. From England it spread to the rest of the British Isles, then to the colonies and territories of the British Empire (outside and inside the current Commonwealth of Nations) such as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others, particularly those in the Anglophone Caribbean. As a result of these historical developments English is the official language (sometimes one of several) in many countries formerly under British or American rule, such as Pakistan, Ghana, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, and the Philippines.

Mandarin Chinese and Hindi have more native speakers than English does; however, the geographic distribution of Mandarin and Hindi, as both first and second languages, is more limited than that of English. English also is the most widely spoken Germanic language. English spread to many parts of the world through the expansion of the British Empire, but did not acquire lingua franca status in the world until the late 20th century, when American culture began to overpower that of others on the global scale[citation needed]. Following World War II, the economic and cultural influence of the United States increased and English permeated other cultures, chiefly through development of telecommunications technology. Because a working knowledge of English is required in many fields, professions, and occupations, education ministries throughout the world mandate the teaching of English to, at least, a basic level.

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