Le lingua anglese es notori pro su grande irregularitates. Ecce un poema humoristic que emphatisa le differente manieras in le qual se forma le plural del parolas.
Ode to the English Plural
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.
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?
Then one may be that, and three 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!
See this site concerning International English: http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
Ode to the English Plural
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.
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?
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!
See this site concerning International English: http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
Multo amusante! Io non imaginava que anglese ha tante irregularitates del plural. Qui ha scribite iste poema?
RispondiEliminaIlle poema circula sur plure sitos web, ma io trovava un version mesmo plus longe in http://www.janebluestein.com/fun/plurals.html e forsan le nomine ibi mentionate es le author?
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