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Despite of its awkwardness and all its idiosyncrasies, still it is regarded as a beautiful language. It is also a matured, well established and universal language. Its owners no longer maintain committees to consider controversial new words, phrases and idioms for their acceptance in dictionaries or settled disputes among self style champions of the language as it happens in other languages! It has settled down ages ago, every of its words has specific universal meaning! The English Plural according to.... Well 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. If the plural of man is always called men, Why shouldnt 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 shouldnt the plural of booth be called beeth? 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! Lets face it - English is a crazy language.? There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;? Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.? English muffins werent invented in England . We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,? And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write, but fingers dont fing,? Grocers dont groce and hammers dont ham? Doesnt 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

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