Please can someone help me explain why English language is like this?

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 there 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!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.

We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don't fing,
Grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
What do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English
Should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?

We ship by truck but send cargo by ship...
We have noses that run and feet that smell.
We park in a driveway and drive in a parkway.
And how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
While a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language
In which your house can burn up as it burns down,
In which you fill in a form by filling it out,
And in which an alarm goes off by going on.
And in closing..........

If Father is Pop, how come Mother's not Mop.

Please add more if you know of any...

I cant stop laughing at these funny facts especially the SHE,SHIS and SHIM.

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why is d evening called rush hour, wen it is the particular tym when buses r very slow n crawling?

why is it called mosquito bite, when its proven that it has no teeth?

why is it called an armpit, when its not at all deep? where do pilots seat in an airplane? can u find a single cock in it?

for the love of Christ, why is our sachet water called pure water, when its infact, very dirty?

I`m very sure moderator won`t send this to the frontpage cos it didn`t say anything about tonto dike.

mmse: I`m very sure moderator won`t send this to the frontpage cos it didn`t say anything about tonto dike.

Is this a bribe or what?
Any good thread/topic makes the frontpage.

The ones that have been making the frontpage from the literature section hasn't had anything to do with tonto dike, so please don't insult the section and the wonderful, talented writers.

I have already suggested threads for today

If your write-up is impactful, then we shall see!

Not promising anything! I can only nominate but I don't have the final say

This is your first post on this section and u already want frontpage? u should be bothered about the resourcefulness of it and not frontpage effect.

Anyways, welcome

Omg! This is hilariousical!