It’s that time again, when highlights of the year-that-was start to appear. Not that anyone really needs to be reminded about 2020 (or probably wants to remember!). It should be no surprise then, that the Aussie word of the year is covid related. Our word is… *drum roll* …ISO. In typical Aussie style we have…
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More Crazy English
We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes 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…
English isn’t easy!
I was editing the other day and found I’d written this: She placed the end of the compression bandage over the wound and wound it around his leg. At a quick glance I thought I’d repeated myself, until I read the whole sentence. It reminded me of this list I have showing how strange English…