Mongooses.

Reminds me of an old joke: A man is delivering a pair of mongooses to a zoo. There’s no one around, so he leaves the animals in their crate and writes a note.

‘Here are the two mongooses you ordered.’ That doesn’t look right to him, so he changes it to, ‘Here are the two mongeese you ordered.’ That doesn’t look right either. So he thinks for a bit and writes, ‘In this crate is the mongoose you ordered. Also in this crate is the other mongoose which you also ordered.’

Boru

(November 23, 2020 at 8:52 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Mongooses.

Reminds me of an old joke: A man is delivering a pair of mongooses to a zoo. There’s no one around, so he leaves the animals in their crate and writes a note.

‘Here are the two mongooses you ordered.’ That doesn’t look right to him, so he changes it to, ‘Here are the two mongeese you ordered.’ That doesn’t look right either. So he thinks for a bit and writes, ‘In this crate is the mongoose you ordered. Also in this crate is the other mongoose which you also ordered.’

Boru

This is why English is so damned difficult.  There are as many exceptions as there are rules.

(November 23, 2020 at 9:02 am)arewethereyet Wrote:

(November 23, 2020 at 8:52 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Mongooses.

Reminds me of an old joke: A man is delivering a pair of mongooses to a zoo. There’s no one around, so he leaves the animals in their crate and writes a note.

‘Here are the two mongooses you ordered.’ That doesn’t look right to him, so he changes it to, ‘Here are the two mongeese you ordered.’ That doesn’t look right either. So he thinks for a bit and writes, ‘In this crate is the mongoose you ordered. Also in this crate is the other mongoose which you also ordered.’

Boru

This is why English is so damned difficult.  There are as many exceptions as there are rules.

That's because we simply make up the rules as we go along......

There was a man on a train with a box.

Another man on the train asked, "what was in the box?"

The first man says, "It is a mongoose because his brother sees cobras everywhere."

The second man says, "Well, if your brother is seeing cobras then they aren't real are they?"

The first man says, "Neither is the mongoose."

A real mouse is plural mice.
A computer mouse is plural mouses.
I read that years ago somewhere...

(November 23, 2020 at 8:03 pm)░I░G░N░O░R░A░M░U░S ░ Wrote: A real mouse is plural mice.
A computer mouse is plural mouses.
I read that years ago somewhere...

And a Disney mouse is big merchandising....

one ox
two oxen
therefore
one box
two boxen

(November 22, 2020 at 5:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

Apparently, this is a thing. In Canada, salt used on icy roads splashes onto cars, and people are deliberately parking in moose-infested areas, hoping for a photo op of - you guessed it - a moose licking their car.

Just when you thought people couldn’t get any more stupid...

Boru

When I first saw those signs, what popped in my head was this scene from A Christmas Story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1t9YZlVCKk

...but with a new twist:  Bullwinkle stuck to a Porsche.

Boru