(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......