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Many have commentary sent to us by our correspondents who write about the history of the songs and what they meant in their lives. We've included beloved favorites from all over the world like: -"Tu scendi dalle stelle You Come Down from the Stars " from Italy. We've also included English language favorites like: -"Good King Wenceslas". Mama Lisa's Blog. A place for poems, songs, rhymes, and traditions from around the world for both kids and grown-ups to enjoy! A Poem about the Wackiness of the English Language.
What is another name for home? Where is your house or home? What is the singular of house? What is the plural form of Boy? Why plural of boy is not Boies? What is the plural for day? What is the plural of kiss?
What is the plural of night? What is the plural of sky? What is the plural for gas? What is the plural of Campusves?
One thing that I don't understand: in the proto-Germanic why does Wiktionary say that plurals ended in -iz while you're omitting the -z? Is the '-z' something that phoneticians can't agree upon, in the sense that sometimes plurals ended in '-i' while other times they ended in '-iz'?
V0ight Oops, good point. Fixing now! But the plural of house is not regular! Unlike spouses , the s becomes voiced in the plural: houzes. I've heard that the same is true for Romanian, but I left it out because I don't know nearly enough about Romanian to be able to say. Show 7 more comments. I had to replace them with parentheses.
They are control characters in the markup language. I suspect you can get them to appear by prefixing with a backslash. I think the last bit of the first paragraph needs some editing. Feel free to edit any existing mistakes — user Ann - SonarSource Team G. Ann - SonarSource Team 1, 9 9 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. As a side note I have often jokingly posed the question: if the plural of mouse is mice, why is the plural of spouse not spice? Ann - SonarSource Team.
I have to object to your claim that few people in the 19th century would have occasion to speak of more than one house. Granted, mice and lice were more numerous, but most everyone lived in some sort of town. And grouse should be grice and spouse should be spice. And by the same token should blouse become blice.
And consider the goose with its plural of geese ;. Then a double caboose should be called a cabeese ,. And noose should be neese and moose should be meese. Then if one thing is that , while some more is called those ,. Then more than one hat , I assume, would be hose ,. And gnat would be gnose and pat would be pose ,. And likewise the plural of rat would be rose. The English Lesson version three. I take it you already know. Others may stumble, but not you. Well done!
And now you wish, perhaps. To learn of less familiar traps? Beware of heard , a dreadful word. That looks like beard and sounds like bird. Watch out for meat and great and threat ,. They rhyme with suite and straight and debt. A moth is not a moth in mother ,.
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