Get English Is Hard Poem Background. No poem illustrates the counterintuitive nature of the english language better than the chaos. Well begin with box the plural is boxes but the plural of ox is oxen not oxes one fowl is a goose and two are called geese.
That is not a negative statement.
Then one may be that, and three may be those, yet the plural of hat would never be hose. This is a classic english poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in english spelling and pronunciation. Then one may be that, and three may be those, yet the plural of hat would never be hose. In 1965, my 8th grade english teacher read mother to.