ENGLISH
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox became 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 spoke 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.

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?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
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.
Where did this strange language come from and why do we speak it?
'Cause we don't know another, I guess...

read it when i was young, read it again recently and oh how ingenius it is.

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ive always wanted to be a pillar of strength for at least one person, so it breaks my heart to see the people around me crumble.

is this the effects of stress? or are we blaming what we cannot resolve on it; a convenient excuse for our troubles? i just hope whatever it is, it does a david copperfield on us.

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msa1 (pronounced mer-sai) is finally over (: it wasnt that big of a burden, but it was definitely extra stress. coming back home from school at night and having to read sloman wasnt very fun, but ya at least ive learnt stuff.

my maths is seriously fcuked. read bad. i want to study. siglap anytime soon? how bout the airport? i really dont want anything less than a B on my Alevel cert. i wont ever live it down, wont ever live with the thought of what i couldve done to make it better.

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life so far has been an eye-opener.

up down and touch the ground it puts me in the mood.
up down and touch the ground, in the mood for food.

yea we(fay and i) eat when we're feeling stressed/frustrated. our hot new item on the menu: icecream waffles from the pop cafe. the first experience was disgusting but now its daaaamn good. (:

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anyway, thank you ameer for your virus and bacteria repelling strudel. i havent eaten it in ages <3

and thankyou xiangyi for the pretty boots. it was just what i needed.

thank you mingjiangcake for being such a nice guy and meeting me way earlier than usual to take 966 with me. k la your bag's damn nice, if i see anyone with the same one, ill do you a favour and pour cherryslurpee on it so they have to throw it away k?

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your world is your thoughts, so if you keep thinking of bad things, what kind of world do you think you live in?

happy thoughts is the way to go. happy thoughts makes the world go round.

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feels good to know that someone's got your back so thankyou everyone who made me feel that way (: i hope you know ive got all your backs too

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all the best for arion vs sajc tomorrow my dear girls (: life's hard, but we're gna go through it side by side k. cheer up, i miss the lights in your eyes. we can do it, you know we can.