Why English Is So Difficult

Why English Is So Difficult

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes

But the plural of ox became 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 spoke 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