The English Have Driven Us Nuts


The English have driven us
Nuts, with the language they've given us
It should be more than ample
To display this one example

Since the plural of mouse is mice
And with more than one louse, we have lice
So logically it would suffice
For the plural of house to be hice

This disciplined British persistence
Maddens us with Brit inconsistence
Though, it's not quite all reprehensible
As it's sometimes quite common sensible

Imagine reading Pygmalion
In Italian

by Stan Cooper...12/8/2008 graphic by Don Hunt





Poetry by Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2008-12-12 at 12:27

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liz munro The PoetBay support member heart!
Oh yes the good
old English language -
quite annoying really :)

Loved this quirky
and witty poem

~L.~
2009-06-15


normalil
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

(Found it, it was really bothering me!)
2008-12-20


normalil
Ha ha Stan, love it. Who was it who said that England and America are two countries divided by a common language?
2008-12-19


penfold18
Ha Ha love it Stan, it is indeed an incredible and inconsistant language and probably always will be~Graham.
2008-12-13