This maybe why be can never get it right with gun laws.

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

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.

Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example...
If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the
bough on a tree!

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 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 wiseguy 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.

If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?

I really love the English language.  Not a speak english or die type, but to understand where I'm coming from you have to read paul Theroux's conversation with Borges in Theroux's book "The Old Patagonian Express". Theroux has a couple of conversations with people about which is the better language: Spanish or English in his trip from Boston to Patagonia. They're all retarded conversations, until he talks with the Argentine Borges, who loves English. It's cool, because through the whole book, he talks about how much he admires Borges, and then he ends up meeting him.....and rehashes a conversation he's through the whole trip.

I'm sooooooo glad I didn't have to learn it as a second language.  I took German in high school and thought it was fairly easy.  

However, last year I worked with a couple of Germans whose English was incredible.  Much better than some "native" speakers around here.  One didn't even have a detectable (to my ear) accent.

Dus diss mean vee haff met before? I vazzn't avare of dat.

I don't know- can't place the face. [;)]

In South Carolina, was one of their names Perz? I have some relatives that were there about two years ago as operating engineers.

by the way, Ich habe Mohren im mein Hut, und es ist neben zu der Unterseebootenhausen. How far did you get in German?

English is the best language in the world. I say that because I love language, and I find English has so many subtleties of expression that can convey every human experience.

Ah, I see. Was Wolfgang "Der Looney" Mueller pretending to be a German teacher again?