Edouard Bastarache on mon 7 may 12
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From: Raoul Bastarache=3D20
To: =3DC9douard Bastarache=3D20
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 1:22 PM
Subject: Fw: The English Plural
Tu vas aimer ce message d'Ivy tremaine.
Mercredi matin, je suis =3DE0 Tracy.
Je suis une vedette de la radio...
Raoul
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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 10:39 AM
Subject: FW: The English Plural
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From: jodanpat@hotmail.com
To: ivytremaine@hotmail.com; meallmom@hotmail.com
Subject: FW: The English Plural
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 14:28:53 +0000
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From: lavi.p@hotmail.com
To: jodanpat@hotmail.com
Subject: FW: The English Plural
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 08:21:14 -0400
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Have a great day - Une superbe journ=3DE9e=3D20
And they say that English is easier ...... The English Plural=3D20
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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.=3D20
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If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak 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?=3D20
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Then one may be that, and there 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!=3D20
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Let's face it - English is a crazy language.=3D20
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;=3D20
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.=3D20
English muffins weren't invented in England.=3D20
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We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,=3D20
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing,=3D20
Grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?=3D20
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Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
What do you call it?=3D20
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If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?=3D20
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?=3D20
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Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English=3D20
Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? =
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We ship by truck but send cargo by ship...
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?=3D20
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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.=3D20
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And in closing...=3D20
If Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop???
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Joanne Marchand=3D20
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