English is a crazy language…

I was sorting out my things and throwing all the papers that I don’t need when I saw a brochure from Norton University here in Cambodia and read an article about english. It goes like this 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 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? Then one maybe that, and three would be those. Yet hat in the plural would never be hose. And the plural...