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RE: [GWL]: Plural and poetry

>Thank you, Barb! I've been trying to track that down for at least 30 yesrs!

In comparing the two references, I'm sure the first is the one I 
remember (obviously with great liberties taken!). But the second, for 
which Lilo Jacobi claimes authorship, was obviously "adapted" from 
the first. The 1998 "authorship" is about 3 decades late. My guess is 
that I read it first during my high school days in the '50's.

Fun! and thanks again.

Mary Appelhof


>    "But the plural of house
>     Is houses, not hice."
>  http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/english3.html
>
>This website claims the author is Lilo Jacobi.
>http://www.dunley.freeserve.co.uk/gardun/Education/English%20is%20Easy.html
>
>I'm a little confused about the poem you quote because
>I thought the plural of fox was foxes.
>
>
>
>  > Now, can anyone come up with one of my favorite poems, which sounds
>>  like Ogden Nash, but I don't ever remember seeing attribution. It
>>  goes something like this:
>>
>>  "If the plural of box is boxes, why isn't the plural of fox, foxes.
>  > If the plural of mouse is mice, why isn't the plural of house, hice.
>
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