Green Club

[Alaskan]

yumm yummy grease!

 

[sourland]

Grease

Good for the soul.
Good for the vole.
Good for a role
Good for the mole.


Especially on the dole.

 

[gmendoza]

Grease Grease, good for the fleece
good for the geese
good for the Meese
wont make the gears seize

Grease Grease, the slippery goo
good for the chew
good for the loo
good for the poo


( definition of Meese...two mooses are called meese. like two gooses are geese. like two mouses are mice and two houses are hice. but one sheeps skin is fleece, so two fleece are flouse.)

 

[sourland]

Gman's logical progression of grammatic (is that a word?) anomalies.

 

[Wisher1000]

Morning, Blue!

Factoid - The word, "chicken" is plural for chick, just as oxen is plural for ox. Over the years, it has come to be used for a singular bird and with an added "s", for the plural. Therefore, rather than saying, "How many chickens do you have?" the correct wording would be "How many chicken do you have?"

Just a bit of trivia...........

 

[Bunnylady]

Hmmmm. Sounds Germanic. If we are going grammatical fanatical, here's one for you: if the plural of child is children, and the plural of chick is chicken, then is the plural of germ, german?

 

[gmendoza]

Morning, Blue!

Factoid - The word, "chicken" is plural for chick, just as oxen is plural for ox. Over the years, it has come to be used for a singular bird and with an added "s", for the plural. Therefore, rather than saying, "How many chickens do you have?" the correct wording would be "How many chicken do you have?"

Just a bit of trivia...........

so by this rationale:

if I say my neighbor is a hick, then all of them who live in that house are "hicken"

and if sox is singular, then I have a pair of soxen

and one is clock but two are clocken

and if I have a box, then two are boxen

and one tick (bug) but two are ticken

...this can go on forever.

 

[gmendoza]

Why English is so hard to learn”

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 three 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!

 

[Bunnylady]

so by this rationale:

if I say my neighbor is a hick, then all of them who live in that house are "hicken"

Maybe so, but are their children "hickeys?"

and if sox is singular, then I have a pair of soxen

You ain't gettin' away with this one - "sox" ain't a real word!

and one is cluck but two are clucken

Makes sense to me . . . . sorta.

and if I have a box, then two are boxen

Make sure they wear their gloves - and be careful they ain't clockin' ya

and one tick (bug) but two are ticken
Any one who has dealt with ticks knows, two sure are tickin' - and when the bomb goes off, you can get one scary population explosion!

...this can go on forever.

Doesn't it usually?

 

[gmendoza]

Quote: sox
säks/
noun
noun: sox; plural noun: soxes

1. 1.​
   nonstandard plural spelling of sock (sense 1 of the noun).
   
   
   seeeee, seeeeeee. Sox is one, but plurally its soxes. I like soxen better but oh well.
   and sox is a word, you word-correcting, carrot chewing rascal!