Hootin' Anni's Day Trippin'

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
12:39 A.M.

"English for Dummies" [13 lessons] CLICK HERE

Out with the old...



...in with the new



From gold wire frames to lightweight plastic, multi-colored rainbow frames that have a much larger lens area. And, I can see clearly now. From a distance, and for reading!! Whoopee! I think I'm gonna like the progressive lenses too. Much, much better than the lined bifocals. My eyes adjust quickly...but, I still need to test them going down stairs. rofl

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If you were viewing my Wednesday blog yesterday you would have seen this photo, and hopefully you tried to guess what it was.


As I promised, here is the original photo. An insect antenna!!! It's a little creepy. In fact a whole lotta of creepy!!! I don't know what they are. They look like some kind o' ant, but still not even close. Whatever they are, they're gonna be gone if I have my say in this!!!!!! Nature, like this, is NOT pretty. Necessary I know, but still..... [it's a macro setting of the bird of paradise blossom, in our yard] with some out of this world looking creepy creatures.

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1] We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,

2] Yet the plural of mouse should never be meese,
You may find a lone mouse or a whole nest of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.

3] If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?
The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But a bow if repeated is never called bine,
And the plural of vow is vows, never vine.

4] If I speak of a foot and you show me your 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?

5] If the singular’s this and the plural is these,
Should the plural of kiss ever be nicknamed keese?
Then one may be that and three would be those,

6] Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

7] 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,

8] So the English, I think, you all will agree,
Is the queerest language you ever did see.

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9] I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, tough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

10] Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and and sounds like bird,
And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead —

11] For goodness sake don’t call it “deed”!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

12] A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear;
And then there’s dose and rose and lose —

13] Just look them up — and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart —
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five!


courtesy of World Wide Words