Book Excerpt for the Day

    You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,

    But 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?

    The cow in a plural may be cows or kine,

    But the plural of vow is vows and not vine.

    And I speak of foot and you show me your feet,

    But I give you a boot … would a pair be called beet?

    (from The Adventure of English  by Melvyn Bragg)

  9½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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