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 Today, while rummaging through the drawers of my desk, I came across this witty grammatical pun:

We’ll begin with box; the plural is boxes,

But the plural of ox is oxen, not oxes,

One fowl is a goose, and two are called geese,

Yet the plural of moose is never called meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a house full of mice,

But the the plural of house is houses, not hice,

The plural of man is always men,

But the plural of pan is never pen.

If I speak of a foot, and you show me two feet,

And I give you a book, would a pair be a beek?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn’t  two booths be called beeth?

If the singular’s this and the plural is these,

Should the plural of kiss be ever called kese?

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!

                                           - ANONYMOUS-

LOL… I hope I managed to encourage you to put some more “elbow grease” [hard work]

into your sincere endeavour to learn the English language.